FIELD OF FORCE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

field; field of force; force field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

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)