Etymograph

English

gyrokinetics

From gyro- + kinetics.

Formed from gyro- + kinetics

Proto-Indo-European *gew- ‘to curve, to bend’

Ancient Greek γῦρος ‘circle’

English gyro-

Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂- ‘to start to move’

Ancient Greek κῑνέω ‘I move’

Ancient Greek κῑ́νησῐς ‘motion’

Ancient Greek κινητικός ‘kinetic’

English kinetics

Today it means

noun The branch of physics concerned with the helical flow of particles in the magnetic field of a plasma

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