field of force
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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Between the flat cone on the front of the distress-torpedo, and the flat cone on the ground, a field of force existed.
From Operation: Outer Space by Leinster, Murray
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