force field

Questions about force field

What does force field mean?

force field means "the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it".

What is another word for force field?

Close synonyms include field, field of force. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is force field a common word?

force field is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.