FIELD OF FORCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does field of force mean? 

• FIELD OF FORCE (noun)
  The noun FIELD OF FORCE has 1 sense:

1. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

  Familiarity information: FIELD OF FORCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIELD OF FORCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

field; field of force; force field

Hypernyms ("field of force" is a kind of...):

physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "field of force"):

electric field (a field of force surrounding a charged particle)

gravitational field (a field of force surrounding a body of finite mass)

flux; magnetic field; magnetic flux (the lines of force surrounding a permanent magnet or a moving charged particle)

radiation field (a field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space)

 Context examples 

Field of force associated with a moving electric charge and consisting of electric and magnetic fields that are generated at right angles to each other.

(Electromagnetic field, NCI Thesaurus)