Crossword clues for kinesis
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"physical movement," 1819, from Greek kinesis "movement, motion" (see cite).
Wiktionary
n. the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus
WordNet
n. a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation
Wikipedia
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 record labels.
The Kinesis line of ergonomic computer keyboards is an alternative to the traditional keyboard design. Most widely known among these are the contoured Advantage line, which feature recessed keys in two bucket-like hollows which allow the fingers to reach keys with less effort as well as a central array of modifiers such as enter, alt, backspace, control, etc. where they can be pressed with the thumbs. All Kinesis keyboards (except the Essential) support the capability to re-map individual keys. Recent models also come with the ability to switch between the Dvorak layout with the press of a special key combination, though keycaps printed with dual-legend QWERTY/ Dvorak letters are included only on specific models. Moreover, the keys are laid out in perfect vertical rows to avoid the need for lateral movements during typing.
The top row of keys, including the escape key and function keys, are small soft-touch keys with membrane dome switches. The remaining keys are standard size and each has its own Cherry MX brown key switch, providing a tactile feel, but no click. A piezo buzzer provides optional key click.
Kinesis, like a taxis or tropism, is a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus. However, unlike taxis, the response to the stimulus provided (such as gas exposure, light intensity or ambient temperature) is non-directional.
Kinesis is an animal's non-directional response to a stimulus, for example humidity. The animal does not move toward or away from the stimulus but moves at either a slow or fast rate depending on its "comfort zone." In this case a fast movement (non-random) means that the animal is searching for its comfort zone but a slow movement indicates that it has found it.
Kinesis may refer to:
- Kinesis (biology), a movement or activity of a cell or an organism in response to a stimulus
- Kinesis (band)
- Kinesis (keyboard)
- Kinesis (magazine)
- -kinesis, the suffix
- motion or change in Aristotelian philosophy (Greek kinēsis): see potentiality and actuality
- Kinesis Industry, a manufacturer of bicycle frames and components
- Kinesis, a real-time data processing platform. See Amazon Web Services
Kinesis was a magazine published from 1974 to 2001, by Vancouver Status of Women, in Vancouver, Canada. Subtitled "news about women that's not in the dailies", it was published 10 times each year and carried news with a social change and feminist perspective. It acted as a forum for queer, immigrant, anti-classist, anti-ablecentrist voices.
It was edited by
- Emma Kivisild (1984–1986)
- Esther Shannon (1986–1988)
- Nancy Pollak (1988–1992)
- Fatima Jaffer (1992–1994)
Funding issues (Vancouver Status of Women was funded in part by government grants) and changes in editorial direction led to the shuttering of the magazine in 2001.
Many issues of Kinesis are accessible online in the University of British Columbia Library's Digital Collections.
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.