‖n. [ Gr. 'akinhsi`a quiescence; 'a priv. + ki`nhsis motion. ] (Med.) Loss of the ability for voluntary muscle movement. Foster. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖/mhw>, a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to akinesia. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n. [ NL.; auto- + Gr. &unr_; motion. ] (Physiol.) Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Auto- + kinetic. ] Self-moving; moving automatically. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Greatness in bulk; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wearing buskins. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. “The buskined stage.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being chalky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being corky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Crankness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being dusky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to electro-kinetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That branch of electrical science which treats of electricity in motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being flaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being frisky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being husky. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hydro-, 1 + kinetic. ] Of or pertaining to the motions of fluids, or the forces which produce or affect such motions; -- opposed to hydrostatic. Sir W. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ype`r over + &unr_; motion.] (Med.) Abnormally increased muscular movement; spasm. [1913 Webster]

a. Of or pertaining to hyperkinesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Inky. ] The state or quality of being inky; blackness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. ka`ryon a nut, kernel + kinei^n to move. ] 1. (Biol.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The changes that occur in the nucleus of a cell, especially movements of the chromosomes, in the process of cell division. [ PJC ]

a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to karyokinesis; as, karyokinetic changes of cell division. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also . [ Gr. kinei^n to move. ] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ For older kyen, formed like oxen, fr. AS. c&ymacr_;, itself pl. of cū cow. See Cow, and cf. Kee, Kie. ] Cows. “A herd of fifty or sixty kine.” Milton.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to kinematics. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. (&unr_;), (&unr_;) motion, fr. kinei^n to move. ] (Physics) The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces. Nichol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Cowpox.

Kin"e*scope n. See Kinetoscope. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. (&unr_;) motion (fr. kinei^n to move) + (&unr_;) pertaining to medicine, fr. (&unr_;) a physician. ] (Med.) A mode of treating disease by appropriate muscular movements; -- also termed kinesitherapy, kinesipathy, lingism, and the movement cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + &unr_; to heal. ] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + &unr_; way: cf. F. kinésodigue. ] (Physiol.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, a. Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic. [ PJC ]

n. The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body.
Syn. -- kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, muscle sense, sense of movement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. kinhtiko`s, from kinei^n to move. ] (Physics) Moving or causing motion; motory; active, as opposed to latent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kinetic energy. See Energy, n. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physics) See Dynamics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. kinhto`s movable + E. genesis. ] (Biol.) The doctrine or hypothesis that animal structures have been produced, directly or indirectly, by animal movements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; movable + -graph. ] (Physics) (a) A camera for making chronophotographs. [ obsolescent ] (b) A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture. [ obsolescent ] (c) A combined animated-picture machine and phonograph in which sounds appropriate to the scene are automatically uttered by the latter instrument. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ See Kinetic, Phone. ] A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds. It has been superseded by recording techniques allowing the sounds to be recorded directly on the motion-picture film. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Originally a tradename, 1894. ] An obsolete form of moving picture viewer, 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, give the impression of continuous motion. It has been superseded by more recent versions of movie projector and electronic video viewers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. kinhto`s movable + -scope. ] An instrument for producing curves by the combination of circular movements; -- called also kinescope. Cope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality or being lanky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being leaky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Good fortune; favorable issue or event. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or quality of being milky. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being mucky. [ 1913 Webster ]