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Grammar : Adj
Spell : ki-net-ik, kahy-
Phonetic Transcription : kɪˈnɛt ɪk, kaɪ-



Definition of kinetic

Origin :
  • "relating to motion," 1841, from Greek kinetikos "moving, putting in motion," from kinetos "moved," verbal adjective of kinein "to move" (see cite).
  • Buster 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]
  • Related: Kinetical; kinetically.
  • adj energetic
Example sentences :
  • The kinetic theory of gas is an assertion of ultimate chaos.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • Kinetic atoms led only to motion; never to direction or progress.
  • Extract from : « The Education of Henry Adams » by Henry Adams
  • Do you mean that that little thing is converting heat to kinetic energy?
  • Extract from : « The Big Bounce » by Walter S. Tevis
  • As the most vital fact of modern life it is a kinetic force.
  • Extract from : « Socialism: Positive and Negative » by Robert Rives La Monte
  • I still remember that the spinning of a top is a case of Kinetic Stability.
  • Extract from : « Every Girl's Library, Volume 8 of 10 » by Various
  • How does doubling or trebling the speed of an object affect its kinetic energy?
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • Part or all of their kinetic energy is thus converted into heat.
  • Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, September, 1900 » by Various
  • With all the enthusiasm and energy of his kinetic personality, he went 37 about laying the foundations for the new society.
  • Extract from : « Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross » by John Huston Finley
  • It ceases to be kinetic or active and becomes potential energy.
  • Extract from : « Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 » by Elisha Gray
  • Little by little it was losing its excess of kinetic energy.
  • Extract from : « The Scarlet Lake Mystery » by Harold Leland Goodwin

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