kinetic energy

English

Noun

kinetic energy (countable and uncountable, plural kinetic energies)

1. (physics) The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal (nonrelativistically) to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed.

Hypernyms

• energy

Hyponyms

• eddy kinetic energy
• zonal kinetic energy

Translations

energy from motion

• Catalan: energia cinètica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動能／动能 (zh) (dòngnéng), 动能 (zh) (dòngnéng)

• Danish: kinetisk energi c, bevægelsesenergi c
• Esperanto: kineta energio
• Finnish: liike-energia (fi), kineettinen energia (fi)
• French: énergie cinétique (fr) f
• German: kinetische Energie f
• Hindi: गतिज ऊर्जा (hi) f (gatij ūrjā)
• Hungarian: kinetikus energia
• Italian: energia cinetica (it) f
• Japanese: 運動エネルギー (ja) (undō enerugī)
• Korean: 운동 에너지 (undong eneoji)
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• Latvian: kinētiskā enerģija
• Maori: pūngao neke
• Norwegian: kinetisk energi, bevegelsesenergi
• Portuguese: energia cinética (pt) f
• Romanian: energie cinetică (ro) f
• Russian: кинети́ческая эне́ргия (ru) f (kinɛtíčeskaja enɛ́rgija)
• Spanish: energía cinética (es) f
• Swedish: rörelseenergi (sv) c, kinetisk energi (sv) c
• Tagalog: kilusing kusog
• Telugu: గతిశక్తి (gatiśakti)
• Thai: พลังงานจลน์ (pá-lang-ngaan-jon)
• Vietnamese: động năng (動能)

See also

• potential energy

Further reading

• kinetic energy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia