Kinetic
adjective
Related to or involving motion.
The skateboarder's kinetic energy helped him complete the jump.
Often appears as...
- kinetic energy
- kinetic movement
adjective
Using or producing movement or action.
Chemical reactions result in kinetic activity within cells.
Often appears as...
- kinetic activity
- kinetic system
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Related to or involving motion.
The skateboarder's kinetic energy helped him complete the jump.
Often appears as...
- kinetic energy
- kinetic movement
adjective
Using or producing movement or action.
Chemical reactions result in kinetic activity within cells.
Often appears as...
- kinetic activity
- kinetic system
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Context
Use 'kinetic' to describe things related to physical movement, not just abstract ideas.
The dance routine was full of kinetic energy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Emotional
'Kinetic' refers to physical movement, unlike 'dynamic' which can describe personalities.
The kinetic sculpture moves with the wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Science and Physics
In physics, 'kinetic' is often used before 'energy' to talk about motion and speed.
Roller coasters convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Context
Use 'kinetic' to describe things related to physical movement, not just abstract ideas.
The dance routine was full of kinetic energy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Emotional
'Kinetic' refers to physical movement, unlike 'dynamic' which can describe personalities.
The kinetic sculpture moves with the wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Science and Physics
In physics, 'kinetic' is often used before 'energy' to talk about motion and speed.
Roller coasters convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Context
Use 'kinetic' to describe things related to physical movement, not just abstract ideas.
The dance routine was full of kinetic energy.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Emotional
'Kinetic' refers to physical movement, unlike 'dynamic' which can describe personalities.
The kinetic sculpture moves with the wind.
Pro Tip 3/3Science and Physics
In physics, 'kinetic' is often used before 'energy' to talk about motion and speed.
Roller coasters convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
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The Power of Gravity PIPE...
its volume and therefore its mass than the melon and so although in a vacuum if you took away the air they would both fall at the same rate actually in reality the Great Falls a bit slower than the melon also the melon is more massive and so it has more kinetic energy when it hits the ground remember
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Where does energy come...
of all the different types of energy in the universe is always the same. And, for chemists, two important types of energy are chemical potential energy and kinetic energy. Potential energy is energy waiting to happen. Think of a stretched rubber band. If you cut it, all that potential energy
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A guide to the energy of...
a physical quantity that follows precise natural laws. Our universe has a finite amount of it; it's neither created nor destroyed but can take different forms, such as kinetic or potential energy, with different properties and formulas to remember. For instance,
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The chemistry of cold...
than there are known stars in the universe. And all of these trillions of molecules are constantly moving, vibrating and rotating at different rates. We can think of temperature as a measurement of the average motion, or kinetic energy, of all these particles,
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What's the definition of...
or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity, and it's dangerous but also laughable and comic ridicule helps correct it. The comic is a kinetic, vital force,
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How the jump rope got...
which is very natural to what I call "kinetic orality" -- word of mouth and word of body. It's the thing that gets passed down over generations. In some ways, the rope is the thing that helps carry it. You need some object to carry memory through.
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How do wind turbines...
and is it possible to create a world powered entirely by wind? The basic principle of wind energy is simple. A series of sails or blades mounted around a rotor catch the wind and translate its kinetic energy into rotational energy.
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Using language and time...
immaterial concept of timelessness wonder is a kinetic sculpture that's brought to life by the movement of other it uses a proximity sensor to form and fragment the word when a viewer is near or far when viewed from a distance the
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How we can design...
something that captures kinetic energy, melts snow, helps you with your fitness when you walk. Or remember those big ladder fire trucks? What if we could replace them and all the asphalt that comes with them
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The Future of...
What made Stuxnet different was it didn't just stick to the cyber world, it actually reached and caused sort of real world kinetic damage.
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The Power of Gravity PIPE...
its volume and therefore its mass than the melon and so although in a vacuum if you took away the air they would both fall at the same rate actually in reality the Great Falls a bit slower than the melon also the melon is more massive and so it has more kinetic energy when it hits the ground remember
Video examples
Where does energy come...
of all the different types of energy in the universe is always the same. And, for chemists, two important types of energy are chemical potential energy and kinetic energy. Potential energy is energy waiting to happen. Think of a stretched rubber band. If you cut it, all that potential energy
Video examples
A guide to the energy of...
a physical quantity that follows precise natural laws. Our universe has a finite amount of it; it's neither created nor destroyed but can take different forms, such as kinetic or potential energy, with different properties and formulas to remember. For instance,
Video examples
The chemistry of cold...
than there are known stars in the universe. And all of these trillions of molecules are constantly moving, vibrating and rotating at different rates. We can think of temperature as a measurement of the average motion, or kinetic energy, of all these particles,
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What's the definition of...
or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity, and it's dangerous but also laughable and comic ridicule helps correct it. The comic is a kinetic, vital force,
Video examples
How the jump rope got...
which is very natural to what I call "kinetic orality" -- word of mouth and word of body. It's the thing that gets passed down over generations. In some ways, the rope is the thing that helps carry it. You need some object to carry memory through.
Video examples
How do wind turbines...
and is it possible to create a world powered entirely by wind? The basic principle of wind energy is simple. A series of sails or blades mounted around a rotor catch the wind and translate its kinetic energy into rotational energy.
Video examples
Using language and time...
immaterial concept of timelessness wonder is a kinetic sculpture that's brought to life by the movement of other it uses a proximity sensor to form and fragment the word when a viewer is near or far when viewed from a distance the
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How we can design...
something that captures kinetic energy, melts snow, helps you with your fitness when you walk. Or remember those big ladder fire trucks? What if we could replace them and all the asphalt that comes with them
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The Future of...
What made Stuxnet different was it didn't just stick to the cyber world, it actually reached and caused sort of real world kinetic damage.
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Tony Gilroy
American Writer
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
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Mel Gibson
Actor
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.
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Brian Stelfreeze
American Artist
In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that's really non-Newtonian. You can't just absorb energy, you've gotta change it into something else.
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Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.
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Joe Wright
English Director
I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.
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Tony Kushner
American Playwright
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
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Paul Greengrass
English Director
My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
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George Lucas
American Director
For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.
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Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
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Kate Millett
American Activist
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
Quote examples
Tony Gilroy
American Writer
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
Quote examples
Mel Gibson
Actor
Film is built for kinetic movement and crash and burn. It's a great tool for spectacles. But if it's not rooted to something a little higher, you're just kicking your butt around the corner. You can only take so much of that. You have to have some sort of foundation to explode from.
Quote examples
Brian Stelfreeze
American Artist
In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will tell you that that's really non-Newtonian. You can't just absorb energy, you've gotta change it into something else.
Quote examples
Wolfgang Ketterle
German Physicist
When air is hot, the molecules move fast and they have high kinetic energy. The colder the molecules are, the smaller their velocities are and, subsequently, their energy. Temperature is simply a way to characterize the energy of a system.
Quote examples
Joe Wright
English Director
I'm very interested in dance, and I'm very interested in how people express themselves through movement. And of course, cinema is a kinetic art form. It's almost the point of cinema - it's time-based and movement-based.
Quote examples
Tony Kushner
American Playwright
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Quote examples
Paul Greengrass
English Director
My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.
Quote examples
George Lucas
American Director
For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.
Quote examples
Vladimir Nabokov
American Novelist
All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.
Quote examples
Kate Millett
American Activist
They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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