kinetics

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

kinetics
    n 1: the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that
         cause motions of bodies [syn: {dynamics}, {kinetics}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

kinetics \ki*net"ics\ (k[i^]*n[e^]t"[i^]ks or
   k[-i]*n[e^]t"[i^]ks), n. (Physics)
   See {Dynamics}.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

54 Moby Thesaurus words for "kinetics":
      activity, actuation, aerial photography, aeroballistics,
      aerodynamics, aerogeology, aerography, aerology, aeromechanics,
      aeromedicine, aerometry, aeronautical meteorology, aerophotography,
      aerophysics, aeroscopy, aerospace research, aerostatics,
      aviation technology, avionics, barodynamics, biodynamics,
      climatology, dynamics, fluid dynamics, geodynamics, going,
      hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, kinematics, kinesiology, kinesipathy,
      kinesis, kinesitherapy, magnetohydrodynamics, meteorology,
      mobilization, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving,
      myodynamics, photometry, pneumatics, restlessness, rocketry,
      running, stir, stirring, supersonics, thermodynamics, unrest,
      velocity, zoodynamics

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