kinetic energy

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek κινητικός (kinētikós, “kinetic”) + ενέργεια (enérgeia, “energy”).

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kinetic energy (countable and uncountable, plural kinetic energies)

  1. (physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

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