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Look up: attraction

  1. attraction
    [n] - the force by which one object attracts another 2. [n] - an entertainment that is offered to the public 3. [n] - a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts people 4. [n] - the quality of arousing interest
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Attraction
    (Purely Physical) Attraction is solely admiring someone's looks, either because you don't like their personality, or because you haven't learned anything about them yet. It is based purely on physical appearance. Examples might include liking the look of someone as you walk past them in the street, ...
    Found on http://stuff.myrealm.co.uk/definitions.p

  3. Attraction
    At·trac'tion noun [ Latin attractio : confer French attraction .] 1. (Physics) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tendi...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/143

  4. attraction
    1. <physics> 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 separation. ... Attraction is exerted a...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. attraction
    noun an entertainment that is offered to the public
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. attraction
    noun the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; `her personality held a strange attraction for him`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. attraction
    attractor noun a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; `flowers are an attractor for bees`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  8. attraction
    attractive force noun the force by which one object attracts another
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  9. attraction
    (ә-trak´shәn) the force or influence by which one object is drawn toward another. capillary attraction the force that causes a liquid to rise in a fine-caliber tube.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  10. Attraction
    • (n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. • (n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature. • (n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ul...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  11. attraction
    (from the article `theatre`) ...reason or logical content, and created abstract theatre. Later the Dadaists took over many of their ideas in a different cause. What unified ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/a/122

  12. Attraction
    Attraction is the tendency of all material bodies, whether masses or particles, to approach each other, to unite, and to remain united. It was Isaac Newton that first adopted the theory of a universal attractive force, and determined its laws. When bodies tend to come together from sensible distance...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  13. attraction
    Type: Term Pronunciation: ă-trak′shŭn Definitions: 1. The tendency of two bodies to approach each other.
    Found on http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictio

  14. Attraction
    (grammar) `Attraction` is the process by which a relative pronoun takes on—that is, is "attracted to" -- the case of its antecedent, rather than having the case appropriate to its function in the relative clause. For example, in this English sentence, the relative pronoun has...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attraction



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