Kinetic
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Art and entertainment

  • Kinetic (band)
    Kinetic (band)
    Kinetic is a death/thrash metal band that started in 2002 in Greece. Its members have participated in other bands from the Greek underground scene such as Acid Death, Wisdom, and Brain Fade...

  • Kinetic art
    Kinetic art
    Kinetic art is art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect. The moving parts are generally powered by wind, a motor or the observer. Kinetic art encompasses a wide variety of overlapping techniques and styles.-Kinetic sculpture:...

  • The 13th episode of the first season of the TV series Smallville
    Smallville (season 1)
    Season one of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to his developing superpowers in the fictional town of...

  • Kinetic
    Kinetic (comics)
    Kinetic was a comic book series created by Allan Heinberg and written by Kelley Puckett and Warren Pleece and published by DC Focus, a short-lived imprint of DC Comics. The aim of the imprint was to feature super-powered characters who did not follow the traditional format of classic superhero...

    , a comic by Allan Heinberg and Kelley Pucklett

Companies

  • Kinetic Motor Company
    Kinetic Motor Company
    Kinetic Engineering Limited is an automotive component manufacturer in India which formerly sold two-wheelers under the brand names Kinetic Honda and later Kinetic. In 2008, it stopped selling two-wheelers after entering into a joint venture with Mahindra Automobiles, where Mahindra held the major ...

     of India; also Kinetic Group, Kinetic Engineering
  • Kinetic Suspension Technology
    Kinetic Suspension Technology
    Kinetic Suspension Technology is a developer of passive vehicle suspension systems. The company is based in Dunsborough, Western Australia....

     of Western Australia
    Western Australia
    Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

  • Kinetic Communications
    Kinetic Communications
    Kinetic Communications, based in Birmingham, Alabama, is a website and multimedia development company.-History:Kinetic Communications was founded by Jay Brandrup in 1995. The company has lead the way in the development of accessibility-compliant websites, among other achievements...

     of Birmingham, Alabama
    Birmingham, Alabama
    Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...


Technology

  • Seiko's trademark for its automatic quartz
    Automatic quartz
    Automatic quartz is a collective term describing watch movements that combine a self-winding rotor mechanism to generate electricity with a piezoelectric quartz crystal as its timing element. Such movements aim to provide the advantages of quartz without the environmental impact of batteries...

     technology
  • Kinetic camera system (1895), Birt Acres
    Birt Acres
    Birt Acres was a photographer and film pioneer.Born in Richmond, Virginia to English parents, he invented the first British 35 mm moving picture camera, the first daylight loading home movie camera and projector, Birtac, was the first travelling newsreel reporter in international film history and...

  • Kinetic projectile

Pentagon buzzword

Kinetic, as used in the Defense Department lately, means essentially the same as physical in other contexts: it means actually shooting at people rather than, e.g., cyberwar. (Source: Byron York
Byron York
Byron York is a conservative American columnist for the Washington Examiner, Fox News contributor, and author who lives in Washington, D.C.-Career:...

, 3/25/2011 PBS Newshour, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june11/shieldsyork_03-25.html)

See also

  • Kinetics
  • Dynamics
  • QinetiQ
    QinetiQ
    Qinetiq is a British global defence technology company, formed from the greater part of the former UK government agency, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency , when it was split up in June 2001...

    , an international defence technology company
  • Kinetica
    Kinetica
    Kinetica is a futuristic racing game for the PlayStation 2. It was the first game to use the Kinetica game engine which would be used for Sony's runaway hit franchises, most notably Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper and God of War....

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