motionaladj.

1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica viii. 66 What you call a motionall moddle... A motionall is that moddle Reall which is made compleat in euery part.

1636 W. Sampson Vow Breaker i. i. sig. B My Actes are like the motionall gymmalls Fixt in a Watch, who winde themselves away Without cessation.

1679 tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis i. i. ii. 7 This Coat contains manifold orders of motional Fibres.

a1831 J. Bentham Lang. in Wks. (1843) VIII. 300/2 The existence of any expressible state of things, or of persons,..whether it be quiescent, or motional,..is what is called a fact.

1888 Mod. Lang. Notes 3 188 Aller retains in part or wholly its motional signification and as so used may be replaced by any verb expressing motion.

1920 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Mar. 185/2 The artistic province of music is motional suggestion, of painting spatial.

1976 J. S. Gruber Lexical Structures in Syntax & Semantics i. ii. 45 For the majority of Motional verbs, the subject is usually the Theme with various prepositional phrases describing it.

1999 Machine Design (Nexis) 4 Nov. 136 The design, although well received by users, did not capture the full motional feel of the human foot and was not durable enough.

1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §343 A system so constituted that the positional forces are proportional to displacements and the motional to velocities.

1892 O. Heaviside Electr. Papers I. 446 In general h = VDv × 4π, where D is the displacement of the field, v the velocity, h the induced magnetic force, and V is as in equation (3). [Note] The force [so defined]..I now term the motional magnetic force, and its companion (21a) below, the motional electric force.

1912 A. E. Kennelly & G. W. Pierce in Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci. 48 144 This means that the impedance of the receiver has become increased, through the vibration of the diaphragm, by a motional impedance.

1957 W. Fraser Telecommunications xvi. 510 The movement of the speech coil in the air gap induces a back e.m.f. in the coil so that the loudspeaker has a motional impedance under dynamic conditions.

1969 F. A. Bovey Nucl. Magn. Resonance Spectrosc. i. 14 In liquids of ordinary viscosity..the local variations in magnetic field strength have become so short-lived that motional averaging is complete.

2000 Microwave Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Aug. 66 Note that the motional inductance values will be identical to the corresponding crystals of branch Ya.