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repulsive | American Dictionary

repulsive
adjective
us/rɪˈpʌl·sɪv/
causing a feeling of strong dislike or disgust:
a repulsive odor/crime

Examples of repulsive

repulsive
The reason an eighteenth-century audience would have enjoyed those ' ' repulsive' ' goings-on is that for them the split between character and performer was self-evident and unbridgeable.
Chemists could determine the laws of affinities by comparing their forces with the repulsive force of caloric.
This movement is continuing as long as the repulsive velocity equals the attracting velocity.
While the repulsive potential prevents collisions, the attractive potential causes the robot to move towards the goal.
Maintenance of the relative equilibrium on the background of repulsive forces should inevitably lead to the final division into two sub-identical components.
Solutions of macromolecules are rarely ideal and, as explained below, attractive or repulsive interactions lead to distortions of the scattering pattern.
Besides the desired regions, repulsive regions can also be specified for obstacle avoidance purpose.
This case is particularly interesting because it always leads, for homogeneous turbulence, to purely radial repulsive forces.
Biological molecules and membrane surfaces often interact via four or more of these attractive and repulsive forces either simultaneously or following in some systematic order.
In this field, the goal is represented by an attractive pole and the obstacles are represented by repulsive surfaces.
Note that sufficiently close to the contact point, the repulsive forces dominate in (i)-(iii).
One now needs to add the repulsive force related to the momentum taken by the neutrals leaving the dust particle to the attractive force.
Repulsive electrostatic forces between the anionic third strand and duplex might also be a factor.
However, the bond is also discussed as a balance of attractive and repulsive forces acting like a compressed spring.
Market theory was not repulsive to me though.
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