field of force

British

noun

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

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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

An object could only be passed through the field of force if it ceased to exist as matter—which was not an especially helpful discovery.

From Invasion by Leinster, Murray

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