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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kinematics \Kin'e*mat"ics\, noun [Gr. (?),(?) motion, fr. kinei^n to move.] (Physics) The science which treats of motions considered in themselves, or apart from their causes; the comparison and relation of motions.
Note: Kinematics forms properly an introduction to mechanics, as involving the mathematical principles which are to be applied to its data of forces. --Nichol.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kinematics
noun: the branch of mechanics concerned with motion without reference to force or mass
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