kinematically
- adverb
- /ˌkɪnəˈmætɪkli/
- Specialized
- In physics, we often analyze objects kinematically to understand their motion without considering external forces.
Examples
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Kinematically, the knee is a joint with six degrees of freedom (Buckwalter et al., 1999).
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Sensing either the extension of the prismatic joints or the rotation of the base joints will kinematically determine the location of the control point.
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I can lift that kinematically connected plate right off its base!
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So just kinematically there is no choice of momenta that I could make that would give a contribution to this.
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Conclusion: Breathiness ratings were best explained kinematically by the degree of vocal process separation and acoustically by CPP. Article Key Words: voice; voice disorders; acoustics
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Moreover, macromolecular crystals are mosaics of many small, independently coherent blocks such that even large crystals diffract kinematically.
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Their spacing is essentially the reciprocal of the physical lattice spacing. The kinematically allowed values of q cover the shaded "pancake" in the inverse lattice.
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This challenge to carnal connectivity is exemplified by the phenomenon of "dry bites," in which kinematically "normal" appearing strikes result in no venom injection (e.g., Warrell 1996).
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The robot arm moved kinematically along the predefined path to assemble the components.
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The animation depicted the character's movements kinematically, highlighting the smooth transitions between actions.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Kinematically comes from the Greek root kine-, from kinesis, meaning 'movement', the same root you see in the common word kinetic. So to study something kinematically is to look at how it moves, its positions and speeds, without looking at the forces that make it move.
