Kata

Quick meaning: Kata is a noun meaning (martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.

Meaning

(martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, programming) A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.
2. Ellipsis of kata thermometer.
3. (in combination) A drop (in temperature).
4. In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
5. Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”).

Example Sentences

These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.

About fifty kata, or "formal exercises," are practiced at the present time, some having been passed down from generation to generation, others having been developed fairly recently.

Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.

Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.

Word Forms

• katas

Antonyms for kata

Common opposites include ana.

Related Words

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