vis viva

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.

Word forms

vis viva

Etymology

From Latin, meaning "live force", coined by Gottfried W. Leibniz in order to denote a quantity discovered by Christiaan Huygens.

Antonyms

Derived words

vis viva equation
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