kinetic energy: alternatives and connections

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kinetic energy

Energy an object has because it is moving.

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Motion 84% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

physics of motion 25% interchangeable

Energy due to motion.

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Acceleration noun · 81% connection

The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth wi…

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Force verb · 81% connection

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

Appears with this word in Physics of motion.

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Inertia noun · 81% connection

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straigh…

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Mass noun · 81% connection

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

Appears with this word in Physics of motion.

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Momentum noun · 81% connection

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

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Velocity noun · 81% connection

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or…

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activation energy noun · 86% connection

the energy that an atomic system must acquire before a process (such as an emission or reaction) can occur; "catalysts are said to red…