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<physics> The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces.
Origin: Gr., motion, fr. To move.
(01 Mar 1998)
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