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- Ancient Greek · derived fromκινητικός“kinetic”
- English todaykinetics
From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “kinetic”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekκινητικός all →
kinetic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
kinetics
Today it means: The branch of mechanics concerned with motion of objects, as well as the reason i.e. the forces acting on such bodies. This, along with kinematics constitute dynamics, which is concerned purely with the effects of forces on moving bodies. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κινητικός