Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The branch of chemistry that is concerned with the rates of change in the concentration of reactants in a chemical reaction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That branch of the science of dynamics which treats of forces causing or changing the motion in bodies or of the circumstances of actual motion: opposed to statics, and synonymous with dynamics in one of the senses of that word. See
dynamics .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physics) See
dynamics .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics The branch of
mechanics concerned purely with themotion ofbodies . This is in contrast todynamics , which also considers the reasons for motion, e.g. theforces acting on such bodies. - noun chemistry The branch of
chemistry that is concerned with therates ofchemical reactions .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies
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Examples
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After spending nearly two years doing research in kinetics of polymerizations, I realized that I wanted to have time to study various basic subjects in order to broaden my background and to explore other research areas.
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It will hence be abundantly clear again that a special problem of chemical kinetics is involved in the special case of these catalyses and that until a way has been found whereby a rate of chemical reaction can generally be calculated in advance as a function of the chemical nature of the reagents and perhaps of the special form of the reaction equation, the catalysis problem cannot satisfactorily be answered.
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Ordering genes in a flagella pathway by analysis of expression kinetics from living bacteria.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Ordering genes in a flagella pathway by analysis of expression kinetics from living bacteria.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Growth is controlled by attachment kinetics, which is in turn controlled by the still mysterious surface physics of the growing snow crystal.
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Ordering genes in a flagella pathway by analysis of expression kinetics from living bacteria.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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Ordering genes in a flagella pathway by analysis of expression kinetics from living bacteria.
The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007
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URL van Baalen CA, Guillon C, van Baalen M, Verschuren EJ, Boers PHM, et al. (2002) Impact of antigen expression kinetics on the effectiveness of HIV-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Boris Schmid et al. 2008
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At last realizing the futility of superior "kinetics" — roughly speaking, putting a lot of metal in the air — American forces belatedly adopted a counterinsurgency strategy.
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Islamist terrorism cannot be defeated by what the military calls "kinetics" alone.
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