tour de force | a masterly or brilliant feat |
drive thrust driving force | the act of applying force to propel something, after reaching the desired velocity the drive is cut off |
expulsion projection ejection forcing out | the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting |
force out force-out force play force | a putout of a base runner who is required to run, the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base, the shortstop got the runner at second on a force |
protrusion projection jut jutting | the act of projecting out from something |
labor labour toil | productive work (especially physical work done for wages), his labor did not require a great deal of skill |
manual labor manual labour | labor done with the hands |
labor of love labour of love | productive work performed voluntarily without material reward or compensation |
violence force | an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists), he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one |
reconnaissance in force | an offensive operation designed to discover or test the enemy's strength (or to obtain other information) |
Air Force Research Laboratory AFRL | a United States Air Force defense laboratory responsible for discovering and developing and integrating fighting technologies for aerospace forces |
conformal projection orthomorphic projection | a map projection in which a small area is rendered in its true shape |
conic projection conical projection | a map projection of the globe onto a cone with its point over one of the earth's poles |
equal-area projection equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
homolosine projection | an equal-area projection map of the globe, oceans are distorted in order to minimize the distortion of the continents |
labor camp labour camp | a penal institution for political prisoners who are used as forced labor |
lubricating system force-feed lubricating system force feed pressure-feed lubricating system pressure feed | mechanical system of lubricating internal combustion engines in which a pump forces oil into the engine bearings |
map projection | a projection of the globe onto a flat map using a grid of lines of latitude and longitude |
Mercator projection Mercator's projection | a map projection of the earth onto a cylinder, areas appear greater the farther they are from the equator |
polyconic projection | a conic projection of a map having distances between meridians equal to those distances on a globe |
projection | any structure that branches out from a central support |
projection | the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction |
screen silver screen projection screen | a white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing |
sinusoidal projection Sanson-Flamsteed projection | an equal-area map projection showing parallels and the equator as straight lines and other meridians as curved, used to map tropical latitudes |
effect force | (of a law) having legal validity, the law is still in effect |
force forcefulness strength | physical energy or intensity, he hit with all the force he could muster, it was destroyed by the strength of the gale, a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man |
force | a powerful effect or influence, the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them |
projection | a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations |
project projection | a planned undertaking |
projection | the projection of an image from a film onto a screen |
act of God force majeure vis major inevitable accident unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
Force | formed in as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders, became one of PLO's elite units, has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets |
Irish National Liberation Army INLA People's Liberation Army People's Republican Army Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
Loyalist Volunteer Force | a terrorist group formed in in Northern Ireland, seeks to prevent the peace process, murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace |
United Self-Defense Force of Colombia United Self-Defense Group of Colombia Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia AUC | a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups, is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members, the AUC conducted over assassinations in one year |
defense defence defense force defence force | an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack, he joined the defense against invasion |
sales department sales division sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
labor labour working class proletariat | a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages, there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field |
labor force labor pool | the source of trained people from which workers can be hired |
task force | a temporary military unit formed to accomplish a particular objective |
United States Air Force Academy US Air Force Academy | a school for training men and women to become officers in the United States Air Force |
Royal Air Force RAF | the airforce of Great Britain |
air force airforce | the airborne branch of a country's armed forces |
United States Air Force U. S. Air Force US Air Force Air Force USAF | the airforce of the United States of America, the agency that defends the United States through control and exploitation of air and space |
Air Force Space Command AFSPC | a command of the United States Air Force that is responsible for defending the United States through its space and intercontinental ballistic missile operations |
Air Force Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance Air Force ISR AFISR | an agency focused on ensuring that the United States military attains information superiority, operates worldwide ground sites and an array of airborne reconnaissance and surveillance platforms |
guerrilla force guerilla force | an irregular armed force that fights by sabotage and harassment, often rural and organized in large groups |
military unit military force military group force | a unit that is part of some military service, he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men |
paramilitary paramilitary force paramilitary unit paramilitary organization paramilitary organisation | a group of civilians organized in a military fashion (especially to operate in place of or to assist regular army troops) |