Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

autokinetic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: au-toki-net-ic
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Moving by itself or automatically (especially of a fixed object, illusorily, when stared at); relating to autokinesis.

adj

Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Etymology

From auto- + kinetic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: auto

Phrases

autokinetic effect

Questions

What does autokinetic mean?: Moving by itself or automatically (especially of a fixed object, illusorily, when stared at); relating to autokinesis.
Where does autokinetic come from?: From auto- + kinetic.

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