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FIELD OF FORCE
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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 it
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)
