3 meanings
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1 —as in:
a dynamic personality
Definition
energetic and enthusiastic — often inspiring others- a dynamic speaker
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- the dynamic president of the firm
- I'm leading a double-life, a simple, honest warehouse worker by day, by night a dynamic czar of the underworld,Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
- "Hitler is the government," said Miss Gates, and seizing an opportunity to make education dynamic, she went to the blackboard.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- That means I'm dynamic, loyal, and chock-full of animal magnetism.Lincoln Pierce -- Big Nate - In a Class by Himself
- The dynamic train guard duo made their way back to the mother, the girl, and the small male corpse.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
dynamic = energetic (on the move; making changes)
dynamic = exciting or spirited
dynamic = energetic (on the move; making changes)
dynamic = energetic
2 —as in:
a dynamic system
Definition
continually changing — typically in a good or adaptive way- A dynamic market rapidly adjusts to new technologies and shortages of resources.
dynamic = continually changing
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- A dynamic future tolerates diversity, evolves through trial and error, and contains a rich ecology of human choices.Virginia Postrel -- The Future and its Enemies
- Industry and commerce are not static things, but dynamic processes, in which individual companies and whole industries rise and fall, as a result of relentless competition under changing conditions.Thomas Sowell -- Basic Economics
- I am alive, dynamic, ever active, and moving.William P. Young -- The Shack
dynamic = always changing
3 —as in:
the system dynamic
Definition
the interaction of all the forces influencing a system- The dynamics are more complicated than most people realize.
dynamics = the interaction of all the forces influencing a system
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- She is a specialist in fluid dynamics.
- I'm beginning to understand the interpersonal dynamics and power plays at work in her extended family.
- Certainly Peeta has thrown a wrench into our star-crossed lover dynamic.Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games
- It is impossible to know what murky convergence of chromosomal matter, parent-child dynamics, and alignment of the cosmos was responsible, but Christopher Johnson McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory.Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- At lunch the three of us sat together like we always used to, but the dynamics had shifted.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
dynamics = the interaction of all the forces influencing a system
dynamics = the interaction of all the forces influencing a system
dynamic = the interaction of all the forces influencing a changeable situation
dynamics = interaction of influencing forces
dynamics = interaction of influencing forces
dynamics = the interaction of all the forces influencing a system