kinetic
IPA: kʌnˈɛtɪk
adjective
- Relating to motion.
- Relating to kinesis or motor function.
- (biology) Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
- (philosophy) Relating to the force driving life forward.
- (military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
- (slang) Frantic; busy.
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Examples of "kinetic" in Sentences
- Boys are supposed to like sports, rasslin ', "kinetic activities."
- Cruz-Diez is known as a kinetic artist because motion is involved in his works.
- All Replies from BeardogRed wrote 6 weeks 2 days ago small difference in kinetic energy.
- Those Iraqi police have then been able to, as the troops have gone on what they describe as kinetic missions to root out al Qaeda.
- The military, as we know from classified military documents put on the Internet by WikiLeaks last month, prefers the term kinetic strike.
- And Abrams seems to me to bring a certain kinetic energy to the whole Star Trek Universe -- a revitalization, or re-energizing of the theme.
- It is a linear epistemology; and those with the most faith in kinetic force tend to be those who overlook complexity and confluential processes, preferring to eliminate complexity by obliterating whatever does not hold to their line of sight.
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