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The branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass
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kinematics
Word definitions for kinematics in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kinematics is the branch of classical mechanics which describes the motion of points (alternatively "particles"), bodies (objects), and systems of bodies without consideration of the masses of those objects nor the forces that may have caused the motion. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kinematics \Kin`e*mat"ics\, n. [Gr. (?),(?) motion, fr. kinei^n to move.] (Physics) The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions. Note: Kinematics forms properly an introduction ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context physics English) The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"science of motion," 1840, from French cinématique (Ampère, 1834), from Greek kinesis "movement, motion" (see cite ). Related: Kinematic (1864); kinematical .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass
Usage examples of kinematics.
Instead of the parallelogram of forces following from the parallelogram of movements, and the entire science of dynamics from that of kinematics, our very faculty of thinking in kinematic concepts is the evolutionary product of our previously acquired intuitive experience of the dynamic order of the world.
Instead of the parallelogram of forces following from the parallelogram of movements, and the entire science of dynamics from that of kinematics, our very faculty of thinking in kinematic concepts is the evolutionary product of our previously acquired intuitive experience of the dynamic order of the world.
Not content merely to have extracted from Nature the laws of planetary motion, Kepler endeavored to find some still more fundamental underlying cause, some influence of the Sun on the kinematics of worlds.