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In a bursting condition.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reser…

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point i…

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produce…

To drive or urge with force, or irresistibly; to force; to constrain; to oblige; to necessitate, either by physical or moral force.

A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.

An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a rec…

(physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a r…

An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.

A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting o…

The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disru…

The act of leaping or starting asunder.

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…

In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the remov…

Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equ…