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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. ([GREEK]),([GREEK]) motion, fr.

κινεῖν

to move.]

(Physics)

The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.

☞ Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces.

Nichol.

Kin"e*scope,

Noun.

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kinematics ‎(uncountable)

(physics) The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.

the branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion