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kinetic

[ki-net-ik, kahy-] / kɪˈnɛt ɪk, kaɪ- /


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The aim is to be bustlingly kinetic, but the feel is pure kindergarten: no logic, just jerky leaps from one gaming situation to the next, with characters and objects taking on whatever powers are needed.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We don't know for sure," he adds, "but there's a lot of kinetic things happening in that area at the moment".

From BBC

That is, kinetic energy destroys the incoming warhead.

From BBC

The finding provides strong evidence that a kinetic impactor could be used as a planetary defense method to redirect a potentially hazardous near-Earth object.

From Science Daily

Antidrone technologies include tracking, GPS jamming, lasers, and conventional “kinetic” projectiles.

From Barron's