Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to kinematics.
- noun Same as
kinematics . - noun Also
cinematic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to kinematics.
- adjective curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective physics Of or relating to
motion or tokinematics .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The X-rays scatter photons in the CMB, shifting its temperature in an effect known as the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect.
VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅 2010
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The change, which astronomers call the kinematic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (KSZ) effect, is so small that it has never been observed in a single galaxy cluster.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The term 'kinematic' is used when motion is considered abstractly without reference to force or mass.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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"kinematic" or "geometric" too -- if that is what you were on the look out for.
iMechanica - Comments infinique 2009
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Strictly speaking, that requires differential geometry, which is precisely the kinematic side of GR.
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In the end, the phenomena of gaseous shells around stars are produced as a consequence of dynamics and kinematic effects of the expanding shock waves.
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Recognizing that this method itself required a foundation, Newton supplied it with one in the form of the doctrine of prime and ultimate ratios, a kinematic form of the theory of limits.
Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009
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But Newton's exploitation of the kinematic conception went much deeper than had Barrow's.
Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009
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Bottom line is plasma physics in astronomical objects and their phenomena is important, but it is not the be all and end all, and furthermore is fairly minor compared to gravitational, evolutionary and kinematic behaviours that cause most observed phenomena.
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today 2009
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Bottom line is plasma physics in astronomical objects and their phenomena is important, but it is not the be all and end all, and furthermore is fairly minor compared to gravitational, evolutionary and kinematic behaviours that cause most observed phenomena.
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