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Definition of Repulsive force
1. Noun. The force by which bodies repel one another.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Repulsive Force
Literary usage of Repulsive force
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus by William Smyth (1859)
"Let the body be acted upon by an attracting and repulsive force. Suppose the body
placed at A to be acted upon by an attracting force tending to make it ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1863)
"... Thus the repulsive force which acts at all distances in celestial spaces finds
itself reduced in the interior of bodies to an action at insensible ..."
3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1886)
"But, as has been shown, there is no point in an occupied space which is not
capable of being regarded as a material substance endowed with repulsive force, ..."
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