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adjective

Dynamical, Dynamic adj.

Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. "Science, as well as history, has its past to show, a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine." "The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes."

Relating to physical forces, effects, or laws; as, dynamical geology. "As natural science has become more dynamic, so has history."

Dynamical electricity. See under Electricity.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dynamic" Quotes from Famous Books

... thousand trivialities that go to make the conversation between a man and a woman. Thornton lay silently, stretched on the warm leaves at her feet, feeling her bloodless face with its sharp blue veining. Each was conscious of a dynamic something in the air; their minds had a frank understanding while the talk skipped in and out among nothings. When she began once more to talk of the sea that lay down there beyond the green meadows and the blue haze, a faint rose-color of animation ...

— The Man Who Wins • Robert Herrick

... was talking tumultuously with the onrush of that dynamic spirit which drove him and gave him power. He stood there with his coat open over his magnificent chest, and his eyes alight with the ...

— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

... of two divisions: First, a gas generating plant; secondly, an internal combustion or gas engine in which the gas is burnt, producing by thermo-dynamic action the motive power required. The system known as the Thwaite Power Gas System is not only practically independent of the use of water, but its efficiency in converting fuel heat into work is so high that no existing ...

— Getting Gold • J. C. F. Johnson

... idealism. Personally, I have not always been in sympathy with the teachings of the Hegelian philosophy,—I have not always understood them,—but no man could witness the silent, steady, unchecked growth of the St. Louis schools without being firmly and indelibly impressed with dynamic value of a richly conceived and rigidly wrought system of fundamental principles. The cause of education has suffered much from the failure of educators to break loose from the shackles of the past. But ...

— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

... fist against the side of the bunk so viciously that it seemed to jar the cabin. The blow was typical of the man, Rainey decided. He felt for Lund not exactly a liking, but an attraction, a certain compelled admiration. The giant was elemental, with a driving force inside him that was dynamic, magnetic. What a magnificent pirate he would have made, thought Rainey, looking at his magnificent proportions and considering the crude philosophies that cropped out ...

— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn

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