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kinetic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
kinetic \ki*net"ic\ (k[i^]*n[e^]t"[i^]k or k[-i]*n[e^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. kinhtiko`s, from kinei^n to move.] (Physics) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent.
Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"relating to motion," 1841, from Greek kinetikos "moving, putting in motion," from kinetos "moved," verbal adjective of kinein "to move" (see cite).\n\nBuster Keaton's subject was kinetic man, a being he approached with the almost metaphysical awe we reserve for a Doppelgänger. This being was, eerily, himself, played by himself, then later in a projection room, watched by himself: an experience never possible to any generation of actors in the previous history of the world.
[Hugh Kenner, "The Counterfeiters," 1968]
\nRelated: Kinetical; kinetically.Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to motion 2 Of or relating to kinesis
WordNet
adj. relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces associated therewith; "kinetic energy"
characterized by motion; "modern dance has been called kinetic pantomime"
supplying motive force; "the complex civilization of which Rome was the kinetic center"- H.O.Taylor [syn: energizing, energising]
Wikipedia
Kinetic (Ancient Greek: κίνησις “kinesis”, movement or to move) may refer to:
- Kinetic theory, describes a gas as a large number of small particles, all of which are in constant, random motion
- Kinetic energy, of an object is the energy which it possesses due to its motion. It comes after potential energy.
Kinetic was a comic book series created by Allan Heinberg and written by Kelley Puckett and Warren Pleece and published by DC Focus, a short-lived imprint of DC Comics. The aim of the imprint was to feature super-powered characters who did not follow the traditional format of classic superhero adventures. It was cancelled after eight issues. One Editorial Review called the book " Unbreakable or Donnie Darko."
Kinetic is a melodic death/ thrash metal band that started in 2002 in Greece. Its members have participated in other bands from the Greek underground scene such as Acid Death, Wisdom, and Brain Fade. Personal influences coming from, for instance, death, power, progressive and thrash metal.
Kinetic is the third studio album by Joel Vaughn. Dream Records released the album on April 22, 2016.
Usage examples of "kinetic".
It is however necessary for time as a supplement to the axiom of kinetic symmetry.
If we move Phobos, for example, automatic bookkeeping in the Bell Continuum would adjust descriptors for all particles moving within the galaxy, deducting a tiny amount of their total momentum, angular momentum, and kinetic energy.
Every loose article in every heptagon had long since been stored in its individual shock-proof compartment, and now every Vorkul coiled his entire body in fierce clasp about mighty horizontal bars: for the entire kinetic energy of the untold millions of tons of mass comprising the cone, at the terrific measure of its highest possible velocity, was to be hurled upon those unbreakable linkages of force which bound the trussed aggregation of Vorkulian fortresses to the deeply-buried intrenchments of the hexans.
Four main classes of mind were distinguished, called, respectively, the Poietic, the Kinetic, the Dull, and the Base.
Kinetic class consists of types, various, of course, and merging insensibly along the boundary into the less representative constituents of the Poietic group, but distinguished by a more restricted range of imagination.
Kinetic type, just as the Poietic type, may display an imagination of restricted or of the most universal range.
The Base may, indeed, be either poietic, kinetic, or dull, though most commonly they are the last, and their definition concerns not so much the quality of their imagination as a certain bias in it, that to a statesman makes it a matter for special attention.
Taking humanity as a multitude of unique individuals in mass, one may, for practical purposes, deal with it far more conveniently by disregarding its uniquenesses and its mixed cases altogether, and supposing it to be an assembly of poietic, kinetic, dull, and base people.
The kinetic man of wide range, who has assimilated his poietic predecessor, succeeds with far more readiness than his poietic contemporary in almost every human activity.
State into the spiritual and material does, to a certain extent, anticipate this opposition of poietic and kinetic, but the intimate texture of his mind was dull and hard, the conception slipped from him again, and his suppression of literary activities, and his imposition of a rule of life upon the poietic types, who are least able to sustain it, mark how deeply he went under.
The fabric vaporized as the round contacted it, its kinetic energy at the tip the equivalent of an acetylene torch.
Then as the clock runs down this is retransformed into kinetic energy, causing the movements of the wheels.
Along both sides of the Zamjan gouts of searing purple flame streaked upwards as the harpoons struck the earth, releasing their colossal kinetic energy in a single devastating burst of heat.
The oxidations at the cells are, therefore, under such control that the quantity of kinetic energy supplied to the body as a whole, and to the different organs, is proportional to the work that is done.
The sudden deceleration is going to cause a lot of the energy in the warpfields to blueshift and go kinetic.