Definition of force

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Force (n.) Strength or power for war; hence, a body of land or naval combatants, with their appurtenances, ready for action; -- an armament; troops; warlike array; -- often in the plural; hence, a body of men prepared for action in other ways; as, the laboring force of a plantation..

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Rinforzando :: Rinforzando (a.) Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando..
Feeble :: Feeble (superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion..
Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..
Accession :: Accession (n.) The act by which one power becomes party to engagements already in force between other powers.
Coercion :: Coercion (n.) The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. Coactus volui (I consented under compulsion) is the condit
Electrostatics :: Electrostatics (n.) That branch of science which treats of statical electricity or electric force in a state of rest.
Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director..
Renitent :: Renitent (a.) Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
Prey :: Prey (n.) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder..
Hawk :: Hawk (n.) An effort to force up phlegm from the throat, accompanied with noise..
Available :: Available (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea..
Birr :: Birr (n.) A rush or impetus; force.
That :: That (pron., a., conj., & adv.) As an adjective, that has the same demonstrative force as the pronoun, but is followed by a noun..
Farfetched :: Farfetched (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.
Nonresistant :: Nonresistant (n.) One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission; also, one who holds that violence should never be resisted by force..
Multiplier :: Multiplier (n.) An instrument for multiplying or increasing by repetition or accumulation the intensity of a force or action, as heat or electricity. It is particularly used to render such a force or action appreciable or measurable when feeble. See Thermomultiplier..
Isodynamic :: Isodynamic (a.) Of, pertaining to, having, or denoting, equality of force..
Strain :: Strain (a.) To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to strain the cords of a musical instrument..
Forcement :: Forcement (n.) The act of forcing; compulsion.
Light :: Light (n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous..
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