kinematics

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass

French cinématique, from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “motion”) + -ics.

Outside it was Lieutenant Delancey practising kinematics by pressing the button with a levitated pencil instead of shoving on the thing directly. — The Big Fix, George O. (George Oliver) Smith
But space and time also raise difficult problems of much the same kind, namely, difficulties in reducing the haphazard untidy world of immediate sensation to the smooth orderly world of geometry and kinematics. — Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy, Bertrand Russell

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