kinematic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to motion considered without reference to the forces or masses that cause it

   The simulation imposes kinematic constraints on the robot's joints.

Back-formed from kinematics, whose stem comes from Ancient Greek kinema ("movement"), from kinein ("to move"). Kinematic analysis describes positions, velocities, and accelerations without explaining the forces that produce them.

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