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 |
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 |
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 |
force pump | pump used to force a liquid up and expel it under pressure |
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 |
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 |
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 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) |
force | a group of people having the power of effective action, he joined forces with a band of adventurers |
force personnel | group of people willing to obey orders, a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens |
task force | a semipermanent unit created to carry out a continuing task |
police police force constabulary law | the force of policemen and officers, the law came looking for him |
security force private security force | a privately employed group hired to protect the security of a business or industry |
work force workforce manpower hands men | the force of workers available |
air force academy | an academy for training air force officers |
Israeli Defense Force IDF | the ground and air and naval forces of Israel |
electromotive series electromotive force series electrochemical series | a serial arrangement of metallic elements or ions according to their electrode potentials determined under specified conditions, the order shows the tendency of one metal to reduce the ions of any other metal below it in the series |
moral force dynamic | an efficient incentive, they hoped it would act as a spiritual dynamic on all churches |
air force officer commander | an officer in the airforce |
power force | one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority, the mysterious presence of an evil power, may the force be with you, the forces of evil |
aerodynamic force | forces acting on airfoils in motion relative to the air (or other gaseous fluids) |
attraction attractive force | the force by which one object attracts another |
repulsion repulsive force | the force by which bodies repel one another |
centrifugal force | the outward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body |
centripetal force | the inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body |
Coriolis force | (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 rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced |
field field of force force field | the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it |
line of force field line | an imaginary line in a field of force, direction of the line at any point is the direction of the force at that point |
electrical line of force | a line of force in an electrical field |