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    FIELD OF FORCE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with itplay

    Synonyms:

    field; field of force; force field

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting natural phenomena

    Hypernyms ("field of force" is a kind of...):

    physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field of force"):

    electric field (a field of force surrounding a charged particle)

    gravitational field (a field of force surrounding a body of finite mass)

    flux; magnetic field; magnetic flux (the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle)

    radiation field (a field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space)

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