Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of repulsing or the condition of being repulsed.
- noun Extreme aversion.
- noun Physics The force that causes particles or bodies to repel one another, as from having the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, conspicuous unlikeness in the color or markings of allied species which inhabit the same locality.
- noun The act of repelling or driving back, or the state of being repelled; specifically, in physics, the action which two bodies exert upon each other when they tend to increase their mutual distance: as, the repulsion between like magnetic poles or similarly electrified bodies.
- noun The act of repelling mentally; the act of arousing repellent feeling; also, the feeling thus aroused, or the occasion of it; aversion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of repulsing or repelling, or the state of being repulsed or repelled.
- noun A feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance.
- noun (Physics) The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, by which bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
repelling or the condition of beingrepelled . - noun An extreme
dislike of something, orhostility to something. - noun physics The
repulsive force acting between bodies of the sameelectric charge ormagnetic polarity .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
- noun the force by which bodies repel one another
- noun intense aversion
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Examples
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The important final line of his conclusion is, “that gravitational repulsion is not a function of the total particle velocity or energy; rather, its occurrence depends on the relationship between the transverse and radial velocity.”
Bad Language: Metric vs Metric Tensor vs Matrix Form vs Line Element 2009
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The important final line of his conclusion is, “that gravitational repulsion is not a function of the total particle velocity or energy; rather, its occurrence depends on the relationship between the transverse and radial velocity.”
“Test of relativistic gravity for propulsion at the Large Hadron Collider” 2009
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The important final line of his conclusion is, “that gravitational repulsion is not a function of the total particle velocity or energy; rather, its occurrence depends on the relationship between the transverse and radial velocity.”
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Equiano carefully marks both his own repulsion from the bodies of the
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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This work had shown that, because of the wave properties of matter, there is a certain probability for a positively charged particle to penetrate into a nucleus even if, according to ordinary mechanical concepts, the velocity of the particle does not suffice to overcome the electric repulsion from the nucleus.
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Thus resistance is nothing but that mysterious power we call repulsion -- a power which fills the whole universe -- which holds the sun, moon, and stars in its hand, and yet is invisible. '
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell
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The clouds, which are masses of minute, hollow globules of water, are principally held aloft by electrical repulsion from the earth and sea; in this state, no pressure is exerted by them upon the mercury, as they are sustained by a force which neutralized gravity.
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Then Mizander shook his head and looked away in repulsion.
Blonde, Black and Blood Red nathreee 2010
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Deleah recalled the repulsion with which she had seen them lying there.
Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann
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By following up the evidence as to segregation, indications have been obtained which can only be interpreted as meaning that when many factors are being simultaneously redistributed among the germ-cells, certain of them exert what must be described as a repulsion upon other factors.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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