Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun That branch of mechanics which treats of bodies in motion; kinematics; the purely geometrical theory of motion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The science of motion; kinematics.

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  • noun The science of motion; kinematics.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek a carrying, motion + a law.

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