[ UK /ɹɪpˈʌlʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. the force by which bodies repel one another
  2. the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand
  3. intense aversion
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How To Use repulsion In A Sentence

  • Other images also surfaced from the Dance Lab experiments, including the opposing forces of magnetism and repulsion.
  • Of course, while atoms interact via well defined forces of attraction and repulsion, people are seldom so straightforward.
  • We surmise that protonation of titratable residues of the HA1 domain at low pH enhances the electrostatic repulsion between the monomers of the globular domain and thus lowers the stability of their association.
  • She had come here to reject William and instead she was daydreaming about Arthur and watching with a growing sense of repulsion as William chewed incessantly, like a cow with a mouthful of cud.
  • The paraboloidal shape of the bright envelope separated by a dark interval from the head of the great comet of 1811, and constituting, as it were, the _root_ of its tail, seemed to the astronomer of Bremen to reveal the presence of a double repulsion; the expelled vapours accumulating where the two forces, solar and cometary, balanced each other, and being then swept backwards in a huge train. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
  • Unless a mapping population is very large, it is difficult to detect repulsion linkages between simplex markers in polyploids.
  • As in her previous work, Farnsworth explores dichotomies of biology and technology, self and other and repulsion and desire, through abrupt juxtapositions of disparate forms and materials.
  • Elected officials, denying with straight faces that they are bigots or denying that they are answering to bigots, choose brazenly bigoted and insulting comments in justifying the repulsion.
  • I felt a strong repulsion for him, but kept following as I appreciated those tall buildings illuminated by neon lamps and the electronic advertisements.
  • We respond to Oedipus' plight, which includes his own feelings of repulsion about incest, an evaluation which we may share.
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