fictitious force

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.

Example Sentences

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

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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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