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