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made to recede from each other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecular repulsion; electrical repulsion.

ning to capillary tubes or vessels; as, capillary action. Capillary attraction, Capillary repulsion, the apparent attraction or repulsion between a soild and liquid caused bycapillarity. See Capillarity, and Attraction. -- Capillarity tubes. See the Note under Capillarity.

r many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imp…

t of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.

To act with force in opposition to force impressed; to exercise repulsion.

The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.

ar currents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarity and attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.

an instrument for estimating very minute forces, as electric or magnetic attractions and repulsions, by the torsion of a very slender wire or fiber having at its lower extremity a horizontal bar or needle, upon which the forces act. -- Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are…

A torsion balance used for measuring electric attraction or repulsion.