Cin'e-măt'ics, n. sing.

n. sing. [Gr. κινέω, to move.] The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]

☞ Cinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces. Nichol.