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fictitious force

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noun

Physics.

  1. any force that is postulated to account for apparent deviations from Newton's laws of motion appearing in an accelerated reference system.

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His strength had been merely the fictitious force of fever; in reality he was weak.

From Project Gutenberg

Sufficient reference has already been made in these pages to the series of events that terminated in 1875, when Japan, by a display of partly fictitious force, drew Korea out of international isolation and signed with the Peninsular Kingdom a treaty acknowledging the latter's independence.

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