vis viva

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Etymology[edit]

From Latin, meaning "live force", coined by Gottfried W. Leibniz in order to denote a quantity discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

Noun[edit]

vis viva

  1. (physics, obsolete) The product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.

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