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

See Dynamics.

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.

Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics.

That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion.

Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis.

Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division.

on of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. --Mi*tot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

ing against resistance, or doing work, in distinction from vis mortua, or dead force; the kinetic energy of a moving body; the capacity of a moving body to do work by reason of its being in motion. See Kinetic energy, in the Note under Energy. The term vis viva is not usually understood to include that part of the kine…