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motional

motional

7.0
About movement or how things move
  • adjective
  • /ˈmoʊʃənl/
translation icon : cinético
  • In physics, motional energy is the energy possessed by an object due to its movement.

Examples

  • It's a form of motional, of motional narrowing, of motional pardoning.

  • So this is now our motional magnetic field and then the spin couples to it and we get spin orbit coupling.

  • This is illustrated in the equation TA=KA-TF, where TA is the age-related time, TF is the actual time spent on performing a motional task, and KA is the age index.

    Academic text (1995)
  • 1 correlation times for the motional model of the methyl group, which included a 3-fold jump about the C3 symmetry axis and an uncorrelated small amplitude.

    Academic text (2002)
  • The application of the "principle of symmetry," which is a biomechanical interpretation of the mechanical similarity method, provides data on some motional characteristics of a person's lower limbs obtained from the analysis of differential equations of motion without integrating them.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Although they share similar motional origins (from Latin traductio and translatio, respectively, both meaning transferring), traduccion can only convey the idea of physical movement by means of an etymological deconstruction and a metaphoric reading.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The dancer's motional grace captivated everyone in the audience.

  • The athlete's motional skills allowed him to perform complex maneuvers with ease.

Synonyms

kinetic
vsmotional
  • Specialized
34 6.1

Showing movement or energy made by moving

is broader, relating generally to movement rather than only resulting from it

Antonyms

46 2.9

Not moving and staying in one place

Surface Forms

motional positive

Morphology

motional = motion (transparent) = motion + al

The adjective is transparently formed from the noun 'motion' plus the common adjectival suffix '-al'.

Etymology

Motional comes from the Latin verb movere, which means 'to move', and it shares the same root as the simple English verb move. So motional describes something that is moving or is about movement.