n :  an agency or influence that if applied to a free body results chiefly in an acceleration of the body and sometimes in elastic deformation and other effects
  - see ACCOUCHEMENT FORCÉ  .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  far·cy  fer·rous  fraise  freeze 
 
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