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Attractive force   /ətrˈæktɪv fɔrs/   Listen
Attractive force

noun
1.
The force by which one object attracts another.  Synonym: attraction.






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"Attractive force" Quotes from Famous Books



... a permanent magnet, a permanently attractive force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be drawn unto all men. that is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who fulfills that cause must have ...
— Addresses • Henry Drummond

... we admit objects and facts? A priori and apart from any hypothesis on the nature of the matter, it is evident that the materiality of a body does not stop at the point at which we touch it: a body is present wherever its influence is felt; its attractive force, to speak only of that, is exerted on the sun, on the planets, perhaps on the entire universe. The more physics advances, the more it effaces the individuality of bodies and even of the particles into which the scientific ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson



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