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Definition: Dynamics |
DynamicsNoun1. The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dynamics" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | For the purpose of file transfer, access and management:the concatenation and simplification properties of a document. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Main rotating parts of helicopter airframe. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | The study of the action of forces on bodies and the changes in motion they produce. (references) |
Weather | Generally, any forces that produce motion or affect change. In operational meteorology, dynamics usually refer specifically to those forces that produce vertical motion in the atmosphere. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The word dynamics can refer to:
When used referring to mechanics, it is referring to the study of the motion of both rigid bodies and particles. The field of dynamics has two primary branches: kinematics, and kinetics.
- a branch of mechanics; see dynamics (mechanics)
- the volume of music; see dynamics (music)
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In mathematics and physics, dynamics is the branch of mechanics that is concerned with the effects of forcess on the motion of objects.
Elementary Principles
Contrast (antonym) with: n./ statics and a./static
- Variational principles and Lagrange's equations
- Two-body central force problem
- Rigid body kinematics
- Rigid body dynamics
- Small oscillations
- Hamilton's equations
- Canonical transformations
- Hamilton-Jacobi Theory
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dynamics (mechanics)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In music, the word dynamics refers to the volume of the sound. The renaissance composer Giovanni Gabrieli was one of the first to indicate dynamics in music notation.
The two basic dynamic indications in music are piano, meaning "softly" or "quietly", usually abbreviated as p; and forte, meaning "loudly" or "strong", usually abbreviated as f. More subtle degrees of loudness or softness are indicated by mp, standing for mezzo-piano, and meaning "half-quiet"; and mf, mezzo-forte, "half loud".
Beyond f and p, there is ff, standing for "fortissimo", and meaning "very loudly"; and pp, standing for "pianissimo", and meaning "very quietly". To indicate even more extreme degrees of intensity, more ps or fs are added as required. fff (fortississimo) and ppp (pianississimo) are found in sheet music quite frequently, but more than three fs or ps is quite rare. It is sometimes said that pppp stands for pianissississimo, but such words are very rarely used either in speech or writing, even when present in a score.
There is some evidence that this use of an increasing number of letters to indicate greater extremes of volume stems from a convention dating from the 17th century where p stood for piano, pp stood for più piano (literally "more quietly") and, by extension, ppp indicated pianissimo. Antonio Vivaldi seems to have written using this convention, but it was largely replaced by the above, more familiar, system by the middle of the 18th century.
In addition, there are words used to indicate gradual changes in volume. The two most common are crescendo, sometimes abbreviated to cresc, meaning "get gradually louder"; and diminuendo , sometimes abbreviated to dim, meaning "get gradually softer". Signs called "hairpins" are also used to stand for these words. These are made up of two lines which connect at one end and get gradually further apart. If the lines are joined at the left, then the indication is to get louder; if they join at the right, the indication is to get softer. In other words, the further apart the lines, the louder the music. The following notation indicates music starting moderately loud, then becoming gradually louder and then gradually quieter:
Hairpins usually written below the staff, but are sometimes found above. They tend to be used for dynamic changes over a relatively short period of time, while cresc and dim are generally used for dynamic changes over a longer range.
It should be noted that dynamic indications are relative, not absolute. mp does not indicate an exact level of volume, it merely indicates that music in a passage so marked should be a little louder than p and a little quieter than mf. Tchaikovsky indicated pppppp in a passage of his Symphony No. 6, but the music would probably not be played any quieter than p would in other pieces, or even in different parts of the same piece.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dynamics (music)."
Synonym: DynamicsSynonym: kinetics (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector. |
Strength | Dynamics, statics. |
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Crosswords: Dynamics |
| English words defined with "dynamics": ballistics ♦ cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic, cosmological ♦ dynamic, Dynamist ♦ group dynamics, Gyrostat ♦ Hemadynamics ♦ -ics ♦ Labanotation. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dynamics": Acoustics, array processor, artificial life ♦ baroclinity, Business Process Re-engineering ♦ CFD, choir leader, CHORAL DIRECTOR, collision parameter, conformal transformation, Continuous System Modeling Program, continuum flow ♦ DYANA, DYnamics ANAlyzer ♦ Earth system science ♦ Fluorophotometry, Fractals, free molecule flow ♦ Global Oscillation Network Group ♦ Helicity ♦ Intracranial Pressure ♦ JAD ♦ Keystone species, Knudsen number ♦ Landscape ecology ♦ mechanics of fluids ♦ Nonlinear Dynamics ♦ optimal control ♦ parameterization ♦ slip flow, supercomputer ♦ Urodynamics. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dynamics": Pharmacodynamics. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Radio Dynamics (1942) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Impact Landing Dynamics Facility Crash Test. Credit: NASA. |  | Aircraft Landing Dynamics Facility. Credit: NASA. |
 | William Ferrel "The Father of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics" Served many years with the Coast Survey and then the Weather Service. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Convair 880 - world's fastest jetliner--General Dynamics / Erik Nitsche. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Exploring the universe: worlds without end--General Dynamics / Erik Nitsche. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Watching you !" by Carl Dwyer Commentary: "Close up, macro shot of an eye brow, i wanted to concerntrate on the tip of the eye brow and not the center of the eye like normal, it gives the shot a bit more dynamics ; )." |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The impact of this condition depends very much on the dynamics of the relationship of the individual and his sexual partner and their expectation of performance. (references) | |
Business | Complete security systems from Computer Associates and Security Dynamics are the most demanded. (references) | |
Since the beginning of the operation, the dynamics of the vehicles production at the UzDaewoo Auto plant has had its ups and downs. (references) | ||
The Net and the direct model are bringing forth many uncomfortable issues about the future of the existing channel market dynamics. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | Newspapers publish a wide variety of opinions, including opinions on Taiwan, Tibet, PRC leadership dynamics, Communist Party corruption, and human rights. (references) |
Hong Kong | Such subjects include topics of particular sensitivity to China or Hong Kong's powerful business interests, leadership dynamics, military activity, Taiwanese or Tibetan independence, or powerful businessmen's relations with the mainland Government. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | Official State statistics are often unreliable, and understanding market dynamics in Ukraine comes down to informed opinion. (references) |
Political Rights | Malaysia | Because of the changing dynamics of ethnic politics, ethnic gerrymandering of parliamentary constituencies, used against the opposition in the past, is believed to no longer be as great an advantage to the ruling coalition. (references) |
Travel | Vietnam | The social dynamics and world-view of Vietnam's society are reflected in the business climate including such matters as: 'face', consensus building, and the zero-sum game assumption. (references) |
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Rush Limbaugh | Fox News Poll Finds Good and Bad: There's a new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll on the economy and it shows just how bad things are out there, folks. |
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| "Dynamics" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 99.03% of the time. "Dynamics" is used about 618 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 99.03% | 612 | 10,535 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.81% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.16% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 618 | N/A |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Singapore | Ace Dynamics Limited | United Kingdom | Focus Dynamics Plc |
| USA | Dynamics Research Corporation | ||
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Expressions using "dynamics": BodyMind Dynamics ♦ dynamics ANAlyzer ♦ dynamics of a document ♦ fluid dynamics ♦ fluvial dynamics ♦ gap dynamics ♦ gas dynamics ♦ group dynamics ♦ Nonlinear Dynamics ♦ ocean dynamics ♦ Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics ♦ population dynamics ♦ rarefied gas dynamics ♦ river dynamics ♦ Spatial Dynamics. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dynamics": chee-dynamics, chi-dynamics, thermo-dynamics. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
dynamics | 5,404 | molecular dynamics | 31 |
general dynamics | 1,037 | dynamics ground | 29 |
great plain dynamics | 983 | canada dynamics general | 29 |
group dynamics | 219 | general dynamics land system | 29 |
team dynamics | 166 | sound dynamics | 28 |
image dynamics | 115 | team dynamics wheels | 27 |
racing dynamics | 95 | car dynamics race | 26 |
thermal dynamics | 78 | diesel dynamics | 25 |
american dynamics | 76 | photon dynamics | 25 |
fluid dynamics | 73 | organizational dynamics | 24 |
dynamics fox news opinion | 60 | progressive dynamics | 22 |
steel dynamics | 52 | dynamics opinion | 22 |
precision dynamics | 43 | computer dynamics | 22 |
computational fluid dynamics | 42 | global dynamics | 21 |
hart dynamics | 41 | dynamics spiral | 21 |
vehicle dynamics | 38 | auto dynamics | 21 |
system dynamics | 35 | general dynamics corp | 21 |
arrow dynamics | 35 | dynamics research | 20 |
crystal dynamics | 33 | evelyn wood reading dynamics | 19 |
dynamics family | 31 | dynamics research corp | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "dynamics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dinamikë, shtysë (drive, dub, impetus, impulse, push, stimulus), mekanikë (mechanics), kinetikë (kinetics), forca lëvizëse. (various references) | |
Arabic | الديناميكا علم الحيل, دينامية (drive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | движеща сила (momentum, mover, propulsion, sinews, traction), динамика (movement). (various references) | |
Chinese | 动力学 (Dynamical, kinematics). (various references) | |
Czech | dynamika. (various references) | |
Danish | dynamik (dynamic, dynamism, vital dynamics), dokumentdynamik (dynamics of a document). (various references) | |
Dutch | dynamische componenten (dynamic components), dynamiek van een document (dynamics of a document), dynamiek (dynamic, dynamics of a document), dynamica. (various references) | |
Finnish | dynamiikka. (various references) | |
French | dynamique (dynamic). (various references) | |
German | Dynamik (dynamism, liveliness, vigor, vigour, vitality, zappiness). (various references) | |
Greek | δυναμική (dynamic). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דינמיקה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | dinamika. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dinamika, ilmu gaya. (various references) | |
Italian | dinamica (dynamic, dynamics of a document). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 力学 (mechanics), 動力学 , タ行 (Classification for Japanese verb with the dictionary form ending in "tsu", Dahl, dark, dark matter, darling, Darwin, diagram, dial, dialogue, dial-up, diary, diatonic, diet, digest, Dijkstra, Diner's Club, diode, dozen, DynaBook, dynamic, dynamism, dynamite, necktie, tie). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダイナミックス , ダイナミクス , どうりきがく, りきがく (mechanics). (various references) | |
Korean | 역동성. (various references) | |
Manx | dynamickyn. (various references) | |
Norwegian | dynamikk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ynamicsday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dinâmica. (various references) | |
Romanian | dinamicã, forţã motrice (backbone). (various references) | |
Russian | динамика (track record). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dinamika. (various references) | |
Spanish | dinámica (dynamic). (various references) | |
Swedish | dynamik (dynamics of a document). (various references) | |
Turkish | dinamik (dynamic, high pressure), devimbilim, harekete geçiren güç, canlılık (alacrity, animation, bounce, brightness, brio, buoyancy, color, colour, crispness, elan, exhilaration, friskiness, ginger, life, liveliness, lustiness, perkiness, quickness, raciness, richness, saturation, spiritedness, sprightliness, stamina, stir, verve, vivacity, vividness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рушійні сили, динаміка (dynamic). (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "dynamics": aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, chromodynamics, electrodynamics, hemodynamics, hydrodynamics, magnetofluiddynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, pharmacodynamics, psychodynamics, thermodynamics. (additional references) | |
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"Dynamics" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dinamic, dunamis, dyanamic, dyanmic, dynami, dynamicism, dynamicists, dynamick, dynamise, Dynamix. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dynamics" (pronounced dīna"miks) |
| 8 | d ī n a" m i k s | aerodynamics, hemodynamics. |
| 6 | -n a" m i k s | electrodynamics. |
| 5 | -a" m i k s | ceramics. |
| 4 | -m i k s | academics, comics, economics, epidemics, ergonomics, gimmicks, macroeconomics, microeconomics, mimics, polemics. |
| 3 | -i k s | acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, anorexics, antibiotics, antics, apparatchiks, appendix, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, avionics, ballistics, basics, batiks, beatniks, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, bishoprics, calisthenics, Calix, calyx, catholics, cervix, characteristics, charismatics, civics, classics, clerics, clinics, conics, cosmetics, Criminalistics, critics, cynics, demographics, diabetics, diagnostics, diuretics, domestics, eccentrics, econometrics, electrics, electronics, epics, ethics, ethnics, eugenics, exotics, fabrics, fanatics, forensics, generics, genetics, geometrics, geopolitics, geriatrics, graphics, gymnastics, harmonics, helix, heroics, hieroglyphics, histrionics, hydraulics, hypnotics, hysterics, informatics, ionics, italics, kibbutzniks, kinetics, limericks, linguistics, logistics, lyrics, Magnetics, mathematics, matrix, mavericks, mechanics, medics, metaphysics, metrics, microelectronics, micrographics, mnemonics, mosaics, mystics, narcotics, Nucleonics, numismatics, obstetrics, onomastics, onyx, optics, orthodontics, oryx, panics, paramedics, Pediatrics, Phenix, Phoenix, phonetics, phonics, photovoltaics, physics, plastics, prefix, prosthetics, psychics, publics, pyrotechnics, refuseniks, relics, reprographics, republics, robotics, romantics, semantics, semiotics, skeptics, sonics, specifics, sputniks, statistics, stoics, suffix, synthetics, systematics, tactics, Technics, tectonics, theatrics, therapeutics, thermoplastics, tonics, topics, toxics, tropics, workaholics. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-m-n-s-y" | |
-1 letter: cyanids, dynamic. | |
-2 letters: canids, cyanid, dismay, manics, nicads, syndic. | |
-3 letters: acids, acidy, amids, amins, amnic, asdic, ayins, cadis, caids, cains, candy, canid, cyans, cymas, daisy, damns, maids, mains, manic, micas, minas, mincy, minds, mynas, mysid, nicad, sandy, sayid. | |
-4 letters: acid, aids, aims, ains, amid, amin, amis, ands, anis, asci, ayin, cadi, cads, caid, cain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-m-n-s-y" | |
+1 letter: cyanamids. | |
+2 letters: cyanamides, dynamistic. | |
+3 letters: daunomycins, syndicalism. | |
+4 letters: aerodynamics, hemodynamics, hydromancies, mendaciously, syndactylism, syndicalisms. | |
+5 letters: discriminably, hydrodynamics, oleandomycins, psychodynamic, syndactylisms. | |
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