Repulsion - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: repulsionRepulse
To repel to beat or drive back as to repulse an assault to repulse the enemy...
Repulsion
The act of repulsing or repelling or the state of being repulsed or repelled...
Repulsive
Serving or able to repulse repellent as a repulsive force...
Repulser
One who repulses or drives back...
Electricity
a property of certain of the fundamental particles of which matter is composed called also electric charge and being of two types designated positive and negative the property of electric charge on a particle or physical body creates a force field which affects other particles or bodies possessing electric charge positive charges create a repulsive force between them and negative charges also create a repulsive force A positively charged body and a negatively charged body will create an attractive force between them The unit of electrical charge is the coulomb and the intensity of the force field at any point is measured in volts...
Repellence
The principle of repulsion the quality or capacity of repelling repulsion...
rebut
rebut re·but·ted re·but·ting [Anglo-French reboter rebuter to answer a charge, bar from an action, literally, to repulse, rebuff, from Old French reboter, from re- back + boter to push, butt] : to refute, counteract, or disprove (as opposing evidence) by evidence or argument [ damaging testimony] [ a presumption] re·but·ta·ble adj re·but·ta·bly adv ...
Conine
A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock Conium maculatum and extracted as a colorless oil C8H17N of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves Called also coniine coneine conia etc See Conium 2...
Cross buttock
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent places his left leg across both legs of his opponent and pulls him forward over his hip hence an unexpected defeat or repulse...
Forbidding
Repelling approach repulsive raising abhorrence aversion or dislike disagreeable prohibiting or interdicting as a forbidding aspect a forbidding formality a forbidding air...
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