English-French translations for kinetic energy

• énergie cinétique
  Les blindages nouveaux ne peuvent être percés que par des armes à énergie cinétique. New types of armour-plating, however, can only be pierced by weapons powered by kinetic energy.
  Grâce à son énergie cinétique, même un missile de petit calibre peut percer le blindage d'un char. Due to its kinetic energy, even a very small calibre missile can therefore penetrate a tank's armour plating.

Definition of kinetic energy

• The energy possessed by an object because of its motion, equal to one half the mass of the body times the square of its speed

Related words

• kinetic
• kinetics
• telekinetic
• akinetic
• hyperkinetic
• psychokinetic
• kinetically
• pharmacokinetics
• pharmacokinetic
• thermokinetic