Usually means: Motion-related energy in objects.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word kinetic:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. kinetic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. kinetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kinetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kinetic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kinetic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Kinetic, kinetic: Wordnik
  7. kinetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. kinetic: Wiktionary
  9. kinetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. kinetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. kinetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -kinetic: Dictionary.com
  13. Kinetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Kinetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. kinetic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. kinetic: Rhymezone
  17. Kinetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. kinetic: Free Dictionary
  19. kinetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. kinetic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. kinetic: Dictionary.com
  22. kinetic: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kinetic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. -kinetic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. kinetic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kinetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Kinetic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Kinetic: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. -kinetic, kinetic: Medical dictionary
  6. Kinetic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kinetic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kinetically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to motion.
adjective:  Relating to kinesis or motor function.
adjective:  (biology) Relating to the movement of an organism in response to an external stimulus.
adjective:  (philosophy) Relating to the force driving life forward.
adjective:  (military, euphemistic) Relating to active warfare or the use of lethal force.^([W])
adjective:  (slang) Frantic; busy.

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