KINETICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinetics mean? 

• KINETICS (noun)
  The noun KINETICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies

  Familiarity information: KINETICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINETICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

dynamics; kinetics

Hypernyms ("kinetics" is a kind of...):

mechanics (the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinetics"):

ballistics (the science of flight dynamics)

 Context examples 

Upon administration, gemcitabine prodrug LY2334737 is hydrolyzed by carboxylesterase 2 (CES2) and releases gemcitabine systemically over a period of time consistent with formation rate-limited kinetics.

(Gemcitabine Prodrug LY2334737, NCI Thesaurus)

Kinetics is the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies and govern the rates at which molecules and compounds react.

(Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

Cell cycle kinetics is the rate at which a cell progresses through the cell cycle.

(Cell Cycle Kinetics, NCI Thesaurus)

A change in the kinetics of an enzyme or metabolic pathway.

(Biological Modulation, NCI Thesaurus)

Chemical thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, quantum chemistry, statistical mechanics, and spectroscopy are some areas of chemistry comprising the bulk of physical chemistry.

(Physical Chemistry, NCI Thesaurus)

I-124 MoAb A33 delivers beta particle emitting I-124 nuclide directly to metastatic colorectal tissues, thereby this agent could be used in kinetics studies or radioimmunotherapy.

(Iodine I 124 Monoclonal Antibody A33, NCI Thesaurus)

Release kinetics may be controlled by varying polymer composition, different types of stimuli, such as electrical, and varying of implant structure, e.g. as coating.

(Administration via Implantation, NCI Thesaurus)

A physiological model of the kinetics of uptake involving interchanges, such as of an isotope in a tracer, between compartments used to determine rate constants, such as by fitting dynamic scan data to this model.

(Compartmental Model, NCI Thesaurus)

After oral administration of carbon C 13 lycopene, in combination with C 13 labeled phytoene and phytofluene, the absorption kinetics, distribution patterns, metabolism and targets of these carotenoids can be measured upon imaging of the non-radioactive C 13.

(Carbon C 13 Lycopene, NCI Thesaurus)

Although its exact mechanism of action in schizophrenia is unknown, it has been proposed that olanzapine's antipsychotic activity is mediated through antagonism to dopamine D2 receptors with rapid ligand-receptor dissociation kinetics that help to minimize extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS).

(Olanzapine, NCI Thesaurus)