MEANING
1. The interacting forces or relationships through which a situation changes or develops.
2. The branch of mechanics concerned with forces and their effects on motion.
3. The loudness or softness of music and the changes or markings that indicate it.
Use it for
describing how a group’s relationships change over time; examining interactions rather than isolated attributes; distinguishing an evolving process from a static descriptionDescribes changing interactions, the physical study of forces and motion, and the separate musical meaning of volume. Writing functions: Causation / Relationships, Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- group dynamics
- power dynamics
- the dynamics of change
On the page
The study examines the dynamics of cooperation rather than only the number of cooperative acts.
Changing membership altered the group’s dynamics without changing its formal rules.
Dynamics asks how the applied forces affect motion, not merely where the object moves.
The course introduces fluid dynamics before considering its application to weather.
The conductor changed the dynamics while keeping the tempo steady.
Word forms
- Base
- dynamics
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Usage notes
Established -s noun. As the name of a field, dynamics normally takes a singular verb; forces or relationships are commonly treated as plural. Not a separate ordinary plural entry for an existing dynamic headword. Register: academic. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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