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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Forces | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Forces | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Parallelogram \Par`al*lel"o*gram\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?] parallel + [?] to write: cf. F. parall[82]logramme. See {Parallel}, and {-gram}.] (Geom.) A right-lined quadrilateral figure, whose opposite sides are parallel, and consequently equal; -- sometimes restricted in popular usage to a rectangle, or quadrilateral figure which is longer than it is broad, and with right angles. {Parallelogram of velocities}, {forces}, {accelerations}, {momenta}, etc. (Mech.), a parallelogram the diagonal of which represents the resultant of two velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., both in quantity and direction, when the velocities, forces, accelerations, momenta, etc., are represented in quantity and direction by the two adjacent sides of the parallelogram. | |
| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
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Forces of the Gentiles (Isa. 60:5, 11; R.V., "the wealth of the nations") denotes the wealth of the heathen. The whole passage means that the wealth of the Gentile world should be consecrated to the service of the church. | |
