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Repulsive force   /ripˈəlsɪv fɔrs/   Listen
Repulsive force

noun
1.
The force by which bodies repel one another.  Synonym: repulsion.  Antonym: attraction.






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"Repulsive force" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who possessed the secret of the Apergy [1] had never dreamed of applying it in the manner I proposed. It had seemed to them little more than a curious secret of nature, perhaps hardly so much, since the existence of a repulsive force in the atomic sphere had been long suspected and of late certainly ascertained, and its preponderance is held to be the characteristic of the gaseous as distinguished from the liquid or solid state of matter. Till lately, no means of generating ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg

... the ground in a prison of metal and fabric: clamped down, literally, by a terrific dead weight! The suit was extremely heavy, particularly the boots, and Carse learned that the wearer was able to walk in it only because a portion of the helmet's repulsive force was continually working to ...
— The Bluff of the Hawk • Anthony Gilmore



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