Definition of Positional

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or determined by position.

Partainyms: Position

Definition of Positional

1. Adjective. Relating to the position of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Positional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Positional

posings
posintang
posishes
posistor
posistors
posit
posited
positing
position
position argument
position effect
position paper
position papers
positionable
positional (current term)
positional isomer
positional isomers
positional notation
positional representation system
positionally
positioned
positioner
positioners
positioning
positioning time
positionings
positionless
positions
positive

Literary usage of Positional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1897)
"positional and Motional Forces. We may imagine cases in which the forces acting on ... Such forces are said to be positional. We can imagine other cases in ..."

2. A Treatise on Universal Algebra: With Applications by Alfred North Whitehead (1898)
"Any manifold with these properties will be called a ' positional Manifold.' It is therefore necessary in developing the complete theory of Universal Algebra ..."

3. Theoretical Mechanics: An Introductory Treatise on the Principles of by Augustus Edward Hough Love (1897)
"positional and Motional Forces. We may imagine cases in which the forces acting on ... Such forces are said to be positional. We can imagine other cases in ..."

4. A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India: To Wit, Hindi by John Beames (1872)
"GENERAL REMARKS : positional AND ... which are therefore called positional changes; and, secondly, those whose operation is not influenced by position, ..."

5. Treatise on Natural Philosophy by William Thomson Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait (1879)
"When the positional forces of a system violate the law of conservatism, we have seen (§ 272) that energy without limit may be drawn from it by guiding it ..."

6. The Dynamics of Particles and of Rigid, Elastic, and Fluid Bodies: Being by Arthur Gordon Webster (1912)
"Work done by the Cyclic and positional Forces. 1. ... work done by the cyclic forces is double the work done by the system against the positional forces. ..."

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