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Cows. "A herd of fifty or sixty kine." Milton.

Of or pertaining to kinematics. Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.

The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.

See Kinetoscope.

A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; - - also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure.

See Kinesiatrics.

See Kinesiatrics.

Conveying motion; as; kinesodic substance; -- applied esp. to the spinal cord, because it is capable of conveying doth voluntary and reflex motor impulses, without itself being affected by motor impulses applied to it directly.

Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent. Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4.

See Dynamics.

instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope.

A camera for making chronophotographs.

A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision,…

Paralysis of the motor nerves; loss of movement. Foster.

Pertaining to akinesia.

Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.