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vis viva en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Antonyms

vis mortua

Deriveds

vis viva equation

Relateds

vitality · life force · E=mc² · vital force