Word Meanings - ALLICIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That attracts; attracting. -- n.
Related words: (words related to ALLICIENT)
- 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