# kine

Pronunciation: US say "KYN" /kaɪn/; UK

## Noun

2. Short for kinescope: a film recording of a television broadcast, made by filming the picture on a monitor. — Clipping of kinescope (“type of recording”).
   - Simple: Short for kinescope: a film made by recording a television screen.
   - _Archivists discovered a rare kine of the 1952 broadcast in cold storage._
   - _Before videotape, networks relied on a kine to rebroadcast programs in other time zones._

## Noun

1. Plural of cow: cows or cattle, a form now heard only in old-fashioned writing or rural dialect. *(archaic)* — plural of cow
   - Simple: Plural of cow: an old word for cows, mostly seen in old stories.

## Other meanings

- (noun) In the study of body motion, any of the individual movements that compose a kineme.
- (noun) A centimeter per second, the unit used for velocity in the CGS system of measurement.

## Origin

The word is a double plural. Its source, Middle English kyn or kyne, was ky with the plural ending -en added on, and English inherited it from there.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/kine (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).