English
gyrokineticsgyrokinetics
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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