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Definitions: Repulsion |
RepulsionNoun1. The force by which bodies repel one another. 2. Intense aversion. 3. The act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repulsion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: RepulsionSynonyms: horror (n), repugnance (n), repulsive force (n), revulsion (n), standoff (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: attraction (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Recession | Noun: repulsion; driving from; Verb: repulse, abduction. |
Magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation; antigravity. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Repulsion |
| English words defined with "repulsion": Coulomb's Law ♦ electroscope ♦ Repellency. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "repulsion": Coulomb Collision, Coulomb Explosion ♦ hysteretic repulsion ♦ lyophilic ♦ Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization ♦ varying speed motor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Repulsion" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (repulsion). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Repulsion (1965) | |
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William Blake | Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The kind of repulsion which he had always felt for the man with whom he saw Cosette was now explained. |
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| "Repulsion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.41% of the time. "Repulsion" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.41% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "repulsion": Capillary repulsion. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "repulsion": attraction-repulsion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
repulsion | 24 |
magnetic repulsion | 7 |
electromagnetic repulsion | 4 |
polanski repulsion | 4 |
magnetic motor repulsion | 4 |
de motores repulsion | 3 |
motor repulsion | 3 |
de motor repulsion | 3 |
induction motor repulsion | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "repulsion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtytje (boost, dub, impulse, impulsion, impulsiveness, incitement, inducement, jostle, persuasive, poke, pressure, prompt, prompting, propulsion, push), neveritës (detestation, loathing, repugnance), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, revolt, scorn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفور (antipathy, aversion, disaffection, disinclination, dislike, distaste, estrangement, indisposition, offish, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, revulsion, startle), تنافر (antagonism, contention, disaccord, discord, disharmony, dissonance, incongruity, inconsistency, jar), تقزز (nausea, nauseate, revolt, revulsion), تدافع (crowd, jostle), صد (alienation, baffle, balk, baulk, bear down, beat, beat off, blast, estop, estoppel, exclusion, fend, fend off, fight off, hit, hit back, hold off, jolt, kick, negative, parry, poach, push, push aside, push back, quash, rebuff, repel, repudiate, repulse, return, riposte, snub, spurn, stamp down, stave, stay, stay away, stem, throwback, toss, turn away, ward, ward off), الصد (baffle), إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, nausea, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, revulsion, sway), دفع (actuate, anticipate, bleed, boost, carry, crowd, dig, disburse, drive, eject, encourage, flog, galvanize, give, impulse, instigate, jog, jostle, motivate, nuzzle, pay, pay down, payment, plank, press, prompt, propel, propulsion, push, remit, render up, roll, rouse, shove, spur, sweep, thrust, thrusting, waft, wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, revolt, scunner, sickener), отблъскване (repulse, spurn), отбиване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 厌恶 (Disinclination, indispose, indisposed, Indisposing, loathe, Loathed, loathing, sicken, Sickened, sickening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, nausea, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, resentment, resistance, revulsion), averze (aversion, dislike, loathing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | afstoting (defeasance, hive-off, repellency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | répulsion (repellency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Abstoßung (rejection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απόκρουση (repulse, save), απέχθεια (abhorrence, abominableness, abomination, detestation, execration, hatefulness, invidiousness, obnoxiousness, odiousness, odium), αποστροφή (abhorrence, abomination, apostrophe, averseness, aversion, detestation, distaste, repugnance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שאט פש (abhorrence, repugnance, revulsion), ""ף (blast, recoil, shock), "חי" (abjudication, adjournment, deferment, evasion, postponement, rejection, suspension), 'על (disgust, horror, loathing, nausea, revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszaverés (beat off, repulse), taszítás (impingement, jerk, push, shake, shove, toss), iszonyodás (horror, shudder, shuddering), irtózás (averseness, aversion, disrelish, distaste, horror, loathing, shudder, shuddering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | repulsione (revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 斥力 (repulsive force), 反' (opposition, rally, repelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | せきりょく (repulsive force), は"ぱつ (oppose, opposition, rally, rebound, recover, repelling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 반발작용. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cur ergooyl grayn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epulsionray repulsão (abhorrence, abomination, horror, reprobation, repulse), repulsa (detestation, disallowance, odium, rebuff, rejection, repulse), repugnância (abhorrence, aversion, backwardness, disgust, disincline, dislike, disrelish, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repugnance, revolt, scunner), aversão (abhorrence, aversion, complex, despite, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disrelish, distaste, grudge, hate, hatred, hors d'oeuvre, impatient, loathing, rancor, rancour, reluctance, repugnance, revolt). (various references) repulsie (abhorrence, recoil, reluctance, revolt), repugna (aversion, disgust, loathing, repulse), scârbã (abomination, disgust, fulsomness, gall, recoil, repugnance), eşec (abortion, check, defeat, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, lame duck, miscarriage, naught, rebuff, set back, wash out), aversiune (abhorrence, aversion, detestation of, disrelish, idiosyncrasy, indisposition, loathing, objection, quarrel, recoil, repugnance, revolt). (various references) отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, abominations, allergy, aversion, disgust, distaste, hatred, loathing, odium, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, revulsion, scunner). (various references) odvratnost (averse, nausea, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repugnance, revulsion, sordidness, unpleasantness), odbijanje (denial, disallowance, image degradation, nay, reflection, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repulse, reverberation, set down, setdown, snub), odbacivanje (disallowance, rejection, reprobation). (various references) repulsión (repulse). (various references) repulsion, motvilja (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish, distaste, objection, revulsion). (various references) nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, contempt, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance), itme (impellent, impulse, impulsion, jog, propulsion, push, pushing, repulse, shove, thrust), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, detestation, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, nausea, repugnance, revulsion), geri tepme (back fire, backfire, jump, kick, reaction, rebound, recoil, repercussion, repulse, return, reverse), antipati (allergy, antipathy, disaffection, dislike, repugnance, repulsiveness). (various references) відбиття (projection, rebuff, reflection, reflex, reflexion, reverberation, shedding), огида (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, repugnance), неприхильність (dislike, indisposition). (various references) sự ghét (aversion, dislike, loathing, odium, repugnance, repugnancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "repulsion": repulsions. (additional references) | |
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"Repulsion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: replusion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "repulsion" (pronounced 'Re*pul"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: prelusion. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: perilous, prolines, pruinose, purlines, purloins. | |
-2 letters: elusion, epsilon, inpours, leprous, lineups, lousier, lupines, nerolis, orpines, pelorus, pileous, pilsner, pinoles, pleuron, proline, pulsion, purines, purline, purlins, purloin, soilure, soupier, spinule, spoiler, sporule, unpiles, uprisen, upsilon, urinose. | |
-3 letters: eloins, enrols, ensoul, inpour, insole, insoul, insure, inures, irones, lesion, liners, lineup, lisper, loners, lopers, lories, louies. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: preclusion, prelusions, purloiners, repulsions. | |
+2 letters: neutrophils, penuriously, preclusions. | |
+3 letters: corpulencies, cupronickels, luteotropins, neuroleptics, pelargoniums, perilousness, perniciously, polyneuritis, supercoiling, supercooling, upholstering. | |
+4 letters: ceruloplasmin, counselorship, inoperculates, insupportable, luteotrophins, oversupplying, pretentiously, repopulations, serpiginously, splendiferous, supernational, superregional. | |
+5 letters: ceruloplasmins, counselorships, incorruptibles, nucleoproteins, perambulations, perilousnesses, pertinaciously, polyneuritides, polyneuritises, preconsciously, proventriculus, pulverizations, reduplications, republications, reupholstering, sulfinpyrazone, superelevation, supernormality, superovulating, superovulation, supersonically, ultraprecision, unpopularities, unprofessional, unresponsively, worshipfulness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 75 6C 73 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. ..- .-.. ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01110101 01101100 01110011 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p u l s i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0075 006C 0073 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)527182877885758180 |
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