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noun
The product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: vis mortua
History
From Latin, meaning "live force", coined by Gottfried W. Leibniz in order to denote a quantity discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
