Jaeger's basic philosophy was this: Extending the elbow and shoulder muscles in a relaxed, fluid motion prepares an arm to throw as hard as it can.

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"It does take you a while to get used to, " Peter Jackson has admitted, referring to the surprisingly fluid motion of his 48 fps movie footage.

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If one of these spent shells is in the chamber, racking the slide will, in a single fluid motion, eject the old shell out the side of the gun and push a fresh round into the chamber.

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She left the car in one fluid motion, not even pausing to push the locking button on her security key, and entered the school and walked urgently down the hall, past the display of photographs of "Astronaut Moms and Dads" grinning in their orange pressure suits as they held up models of the space shuttle.

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With big processing power, motion is fluid.

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Text size can also be adjusted with a pinch gesture, though the motion is hardly fluid.

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The exhibition Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, full of her biomorphic, fluid product design, is an apt descriptor of Hadid herself: Dynamic, unapologetic and utterly fearless.

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