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Word Meanings - ALLICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That attracts; attracting. -- n.

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  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • ATTRACTIVE
    1. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton. 2. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive
  • ATTRACTOR
    One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne
  • ATTRACTABLE
    Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction. -- At*tract"a*ble*ness, n.
  • ATTRACTER
    One who, or that which, attracts.
  • ATTRACT
    1. To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham. 2. To draw
  • ATTRACTION
    An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting
  • ATTRACTIVITY
    The quality or degree of attractive power.
  • ATTRACTING
    That attracts. -- At*tract"ing*ly, adv.
  • ATTRACTION SPHERE
    The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere. Less often, the mass of archoplasm left by the aster in the resting cell. 2. A small body situated on or near the nucleus in the cells of some of the lower plants, consisting

 

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