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"But failing to detect it in indirect kinematical measurements such as ours," he says, "means finding a way out is harder."

From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2011

Milne's highly specialized reasoning led him to this conclusion: in its first kinematical year the earth was 70 meters from the sun, and it has been moving slowly away ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive

To make the behavior of light and the movements of galaxies more intelligible, why not use a "kinematical" system of time measurement, based on atomic vibration?

From Time Magazine Archive

This is because the steering of the tricycle depends on a kinematical, that of the Otto on a dynamical principle.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 by Various

The kinematical discussion begins with the consideration of motion along a continuous line, curved or straight.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew