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vis viva

vis viva noun: the product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.

Noun

vis viva

  1. (obsolete) The product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.
    Antonyms:
    vis mortua

Antonyms of vis viva

Origin of vis viva

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

Words formed from vis viva

  • vis viva equation

Questions about vis viva

What does vis viva mean?
Vis viva means the product of an object's mass and the square of its speed.
What part of speech is vis viva?
Vis viva is a noun.

Words near vis viva in the dictionary

  1. vis motrix
  2. vis passiva
  3. vis versa
  4. vis vitae
  5. vis vitalis
  6. vis viva
  7. vis-a-vis
  8. vis-à-vis
  9. vis-á-vis
  10. Vis.
  11. visa

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