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(ur-guh-NOM-iks) The technology concerned with the design, manufacture, and arrangement of products and environments to be safe, healthy, and comfortable for human beings.	1
‡ The term is most often encountered in discussions of the design of furniture, tools, and other things built to be used by humans.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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