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Kinetics

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. See dynamics.

n. The branch of chemistry that is concerned with the rates of change in the concentration of reactants in a chemical reaction.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The branch of mechanics concerned purely with the motion of bodies. This is in contrast to dynamics, which also considers the reasons for motion, e.g. the forces acting on such bodies.

n. The branch of chemistry that is concerned with the rates of chemical reactions.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See dynamics.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. 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.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

mechanics

Cross Reference

chemical kinetics

Variant

dynamics

Hyponym

ballistics

Rhyme

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