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field of force

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noun

  1. the region of space surrounding a body, such as a charged particle or a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it See also electric field magnetic field gravitational field

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I was now within the field of force of his golden eyes.

From The New Yorker Mar. 5, 2017

"Every it – every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself – derives its function, its meaning, its very existence… from bits."

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2011

In the Newtonian view the sun produces in the space around it a field of force that makes the planets move along curved trajectories instead of straight lines.

From Scientific American Mar. 4, 2011

Though immaterial, he considers it a real structure, like a field of force.

From Time Magazine Archive

It's a field of force that doesn't spread out.

From Operation: Outer Space by Leinster, Murray

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