[In form a pl. of KINEMATIC: see -IC 2, and quot. 1840.] The science of pure motion, considered without reference to the matter or objects moved, or to the force producing or changing the motion. (Cf. KINETICS.)
1840. Whewell, Philos. Induct. Sc., I. 146. M. Ampere, in his Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences (1834)…. He proposes to term it Kinematics (Cinématique).
1859. J. R. Lunn, Motion, Pref. p. v. The phænomena of Motion … what has hitherto been called (though not universally) Kinematics.
1879. Thomson & Tait, Nat. Phil. (ed. 2), Pref. p. vi. We adopt the suggestion of Ampère, and use the term Kinematics for the purely geometrical science of motion in the abstract.
1882. Minchin (title), Uniplanar Kinematics of Solids and Fluids.
