Kinetic

//kɪˈnɛtɪk//

"Kinetic" in a Sentence (9 examples)

Temperature is mean kinetic energy, not energy over volume; compression heats a gas by doing work on it; and a gas that expands without doing work does not cool.

As an atom approaches the barycenter of a forming star, it trades potential for kinetic energy: the stuff of heat.

Good conductors of heat are usually good conductors of electricity, but that puts the causal relation backwards. Conduction-band electrons can't help but transport kinetic energy, which--randomized--is heat. Putting heat before electricity is reasonable only because of the rarity of materials like diamond that conduct heat via the quasi-particles called phonons, which are communicable crystal-lattice vibrations.

Scott Weaver's "Rolling through the Bay" is a kinetic sculpture made from more than 100,000 toothpicks, over a period of 35 years.

On Earth, the forces of gravity and friction dissipate the kinetic energy of a moving body, causing it to stop.

That kinetic typography video you made was awesome, Jim!

One is pulling a carriage; the horse enables the carriage to move - that is giving the kinetic energy to the carriage.

Sorry it took so long; it's been kind of kinetic around here.

Their enthusiasm and group cohesion helped when things got kinetic.

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