Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Movement or activity of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any manifestation of dynamic energy.
- noun In cytology, a short expression for karyokinesis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
movement of anorganism inresponse to anexternal stimulus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a movement that is a response to a stimulus but is not oriented with respect to the source of stimulation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Also, for Aristotle, movement in a broad sense, which he termed kinesis, separated the animate from the inanimate, and without kinesis there would be no soul, and thus no kind of consciousness or intuition.
SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
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I thought that mental manipulation of things ended in kinesis.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » StarE’s Review Forum 2009
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And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters.
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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And the old word kinesis will be correctly given as iesis in corresponding modern letters.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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I did a kinesis class, 45 minutes on the weights, and then I've done 20 minutes on a stationary bike.
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You can use - kinesis, - pathic, - technic … Pyrokinesis, pyrotechnic, pyropathic.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » StarE’s Review Forum 2009
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Change, or movement, or motion (kinesis) is the chief subject of the work.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Change, or movement, or motion (kinesis) is the chief subject of the work.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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This could be considered the kinesis of the poem, what animates it ...
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This could be considered the kinesis of the poem, what animates it from start to finish.
Do You Have Trouble Finishing Poems? (Y/N) | Goblin Mercantile Exchange 2009
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