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Answer for the clue "Stimulus response ", 7 letters:
kinesis

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Kinesis were an alternative rock band from Bolton , England. The group formed in September 2000 whilst at school, and split after five years in June 2005. During this time they recorded two full studio albums, a mini album and several singles under three ...

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n. a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation

Usage examples of kinesis.

Peter was able to perform routine tasks, she finetuned his kinesis with food-preparation exercises.

Her mental kinesis augmented by a gestalt with the powerful generators that encircled her installation, Siglen could pick up messages from as far away as Earth and Betelgeuse, could locate and land freight drones as easily as others lifted the ordinary artifacts of everyday living.

Siglen, it is the order of the Council that the Ward of Altair be transported to the Earth Center - with your well-known delicacy of kinesis on the passenger ship which has been diverted to Altair for that purpose.

With careful kinesis, she lifted his upper-torso, inserting several pillows behind his back before she spread a napkin over his chest.

Jedi Padawans learn to counter Force kinesis before they even begin lightsaber training.

His eyes were a slow boiling vortex of churning ice and melted stone, a simmering kinesis of thoughts and possibilities, of violent potential and erupting actuality, of all the power that had ever been.

Even without using generator power to augment kinesis, he could lift several tons.

Dance that Verity felt like doing now was like the cocoon, in its quality of bliss, and even more like, she realized, the plain and constant bliss of Meetings, of a thousand Meetings, and the food she had been advertising at Shaker Hill had been a type of heaven, the heaven within every human brain, which could be reached through kinesis, through particular and repeated motion, sacred, movement as prayer, and she was moving and now the food was simply pure light, and memories of Blaze, of his arms around her one night in the snow when they had been out sledding and the moon was full and they were so very happy with Bear Creek rushing along beside them.

Peter was able to perform routine tasks, she fine-tuned his kinesis with food-preparation exercises.

Sometimes not so laboriously, if he knew the equipment well enough to use kinesis in reassembly.

Rojer, using kinesis, opened it and the tightly packed data disks spilled onto the carpet.

Jedi Padawans learn to counter Force kinesis before they even begin lightsaber training.

Dorotea enjoyed cooking for his eager appetite, and once Peter was able to perform routine tasks, she finetuned his kinesis with foodpreparation exercises.

So did Dorotea, both keep ing their concerns from Peter, whose telempathy was steadily improving along with his kinesis.

A body brace that was supposed to give him some mobility had malfunctioned and he had lost use of his arms as well, until he had discovered an alternative method of moving himself-using kinesis.