Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Kinematics"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Kinematics \Kin`e*mat"ics\, n. [Gr. (?),(?) motion, fr. ? to
move.] (Physics)
The science which treats of motions considered in themselves,
or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of
motions.
Note: Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics,
as involving the mathematical principles which are to
be applied to its data of forces. --Nichol.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
kinematics
n : the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without
reference to force or mass
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