metakineticadj.

1890 C. L. Morgan Animal Life & Intell. xii. 467 We call manifestations of energy ‘kinetic’ manifestations, and we use the term ‘kinesis’ for physical manifestations of this order. Similarly, we may call concomitant manifestations of the mental or conscious order ‘metakinetic’, and may use the term ‘metakinesis’ for all manifestations belonging to this phenomenal order.

1892 K. Pearson Gram. of Sci. ix. 401 This metakinesis does not appear to be more than a metaphysical name for non-conscious life, for there is no sense-impression that we have of such life that we can describe as metakinetic.

1925 Glasgow Herald 11 July 4 Who can be sure that there is not a psychical or metakinetic side to the mountain and the precious stone, the waterfall and the great sea?

1922 Science 12 May 517/2 Certain of the chromosomes..undergo separation into daughter groups at a moment preceding that in which the remaining chromosomes pass into the metakinetic phase.

1936 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 23 64 Němec concludes that the cytoplasmic viscosity increases in the following order: telophase stage, metakinetic stages, equatorial plate stage, and spireme stage.

1930 E. S. Goodrich Stud. Struct. & Develop. Vertebr. vii. 434 The Dinosaurian skull develops both metakinetic and mesokinetic specialisations.

1955 S. Afr. Jrnl. Sci. 52 132/1 The kinetic line lies in the posterior region of the skull (metakinetic).

1962 Jrnl. Morphol. 111 287/1 Versluys referred to the presence of a posterior joint, between supraoccipital and parietal bones, as a metakinetic condition.

1984 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 306 513 There seems little doubt that more derived Palaeozoic batrachosaurs (or temnospondyls) could not have been metakinetic.

1999 Nature 12 Aug. 656/1 Lizards possess mobile joints between the braincase and skull roof (the metakinetic joint).