noun
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
• Syn: ↑field, ↑force field
• Hypernyms: ↑physical phenomenon
• Hyponyms: ↑electric field, ↑gravitational field, ↑magnetic field, ↑magnetic flux, ↑flux, ↑radiation field
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: a vector field in which the vector associated with each point is measurable by a force
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field of force,
Useful english dictionary. 2012.