DYNAMIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dynamic mean? 

• DYNAMIC (noun)
  The noun DYNAMIC has 1 sense:

1. an efficient incentive

  Familiarity information: DYNAMIC used as a noun is very rare.

• DYNAMIC (adjective)
  The adjective DYNAMIC has 3 senses:

1. characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

2. of or relating to dynamics

3. (used of verbs (e.g. 'to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. 'running' in 'running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

  Familiarity information: DYNAMIC used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DYNAMIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An efficient incentive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting goals

Synonyms:

dynamic; moral force

Context example:

they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches

Hypernyms ("dynamic" is a kind of...):

incentive; inducement; motivator (a positive motivational influence)

• DYNAMIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality

Synonyms:

dynamic; dynamical

Context example:

the dynamic president of the firm

Similar:

can-do (marked by a willingness to tackle a job and get it done)

changing; ever-changing (marked by continuous change or effective action)

driving; impulsive (having the power of driving or impelling)

energising; energizing; kinetic (supplying motive force)

high-energy; high-octane; high-power; high-powered; high-voltage (vigorously energetic or forceful)

projectile (impelling or impelled forward)

propellant; propellent; propelling; propulsive (tending to or capable of propelling)

self-propelled; self-propelling (moved forward by its own force or momentum)

slashing (as if striking with slashing blows)

Also:

energetic (possessing or exerting or displaying energy)

Antonym:

undynamic (characterized by an absence of force or forcefulness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to dynamics

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)

Pertainym:

dynamics (the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies)

Derivation:

dynamics (the branch of mechanics concerned with the forces that cause motions of bodies)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(used of verbs (e.g. 'to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. 'running' in 'running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

Synonyms:

active; dynamic

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

 Context examples 

A CGS unit of dynamic viscosity equal to 10E-3 pascal second.

(Centipoise, NCI Thesaurus)

Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)

Wong and his team caught this dynamic process on video.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)

Typically such processes involving transmitters and receptors would be modeled for interpreting dynamic scans.

(Binding Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

The investigation was originally motivated by a search for active zones within Titan's crust — places where dynamic forces have shaped the landscape, perhaps in the relatively recent past.

(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)

Although the exact mechanism of action is unclear, carbendazim appears to binds to an unspecified site on tubulin and suppresses microtubule assembly dynamic.

(Carbendazim, NCI Thesaurus)

Chromatin packaging of the genome is dynamic, changing with the cell cycle and with transcriptional regulation.

(AKAP8 in Mitosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

These proteins direct a complex network of protein filaments that provide stability to the cellular infrastructure by supporting the dynamic motility of microfilaments, thereby enabling intracellular translocation and organelle transport.

(Actin-Binding Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

This paints a picture of a dynamic atmosphere of a giant exoplanet at birth, undergoing complex physical and chemical processes.

(GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging, ESO)

This is a dynamic mechanical test for wear or fatigue.

(Device Fatigue Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)