Associations to the word «Autokinetic»

Wiktionary

AUTOKINETIC, adjective. Moving by itself or automatically.
AUTOKINETIC, adjective. (historical) Of a fire-alarm telegraphy system, arranged so that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan