KINETICS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies

Synonyms:

dynamics; kinetics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("kinetics" is a kind of...):

mechanics (the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinetics"):

ballistics (the science of flight dynamics)

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