Associations to the word «Repulsion»

Wiktionary

REPULSION, noun. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
REPULSION, noun. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
REPULSION, noun. (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
REPULSION MOTOR, noun. An alternating current commutator motor, designed for single-phase operation, in which the armature is supplied by induction from the field of the stator winding

Dictionary definition

REPULSION, noun. The force by which bodies repel one another.
REPULSION, noun. Intense aversion.
REPULSION, noun. The act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin