单词 | kinesis |
释义 | kinesis/kɪˈniːsɪs / /kʌɪˈniːsɪs/noun (plural kineses) [mass noun] 1Movement; motion.In the end, I found it kind of unsatisfying: less overhead control than simple fiction, less interactivity than roleplaying, less kinesis than film… paid well, but it never really clicked for me and I drifted away from the contract pool....
1.1 [count noun] Biology An undirected movement of a cell, organism, or part in response to an external stimulus. Compare with taxis.Where an aspect of the environment is highly predictable (such as the sun rising every day), very accurate anticipation can be achieved by endogenous rhythms or by simple kineses and taxes....
1.2 Zoology Mobility of the bones of the skull, as in some birds and reptiles.A high level of skull kinesis seems to be the rule among most other diapsids....
OriginEarly 17th century: from Greek kinēsis 'movement', from kinein 'to move'. |
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