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Kinematics – King George's War

Kinematics

the science of pure motion, admitting conceptions of time and velocity, but excluding the conception of force. From the kinematics of a point, all the properties of a curve may be deduced.

Kinetic Motor

a vehicle impelled by means of stored energy. It is really a "stored-steam" system. which treats of forces imparting motion

Kinetics

a branch of dynamics to or influencing motion already imparted to bodies.

Kinetograph

an apparatus for taking pictures of moving objects in their changing positions. It was invented by Edison, a motion picture machines. forerunner of the present

Kineto-Phonograph

an apparatus combining the principles of the kinetograph, the vitascope, and the phonograph, invented by by Thomas A. Edison.

King Cole

a legendary King of Britain, who lived in the 3d century.

King Cotton

a popular personification of the cotton plant in the United States.

Kingdom

the designation of the highest and most comprehensive of the divisions into which natural objects are arranged. They are three in number, the Animal, the Vegetable, and the Mineral kingdoms.

Kingdom of Heaven

or KING- DOM OF GOD. See HEAVEN.

Kingfish

a beautiful member of the mackerel family. The back and sides are of a rich green, with purple and gold reflections; the under parts yellowish-green, the fins vermilion.

Called also the opah.

King George's Sound

an inlet 5 miles N. and S., and 5 miles broad, at the S. W. angle of western Australia; is an excellent roadstead, and contains two landlocked recesses, Princess Royal and Oyster Harbors. Albany, on Princess Royal Harbor, is a port of call for mail steamers.

King George's War

a war bebetween Great Britain and its American colonies, against France and its Indian allies, so named from King George II.

Its principal event was the capture of Louisburg, on Cape Breton Island, the strongest and most important French fortress in America except Quebec. The war began in 1743 and was ended in 1748 by the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.