repulsive in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

repulsive in the PONS Dictionary

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It was shown that when he was young, he had ugly scars from an accident and that his fellow villagers thought of him as repulsive.
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Nothing cancels gravity, since it is only attractive, unlike electric forces which can be attractive or repulsive.
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So frightening and repulsive was his appearance that his mere presence would instill terror in any unfortunate enough to encounter the beast.
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However, since repulsive forces are local in nature the graph can be partitioned such that only neighboring vertices are considered.
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Such repulsive forces may further induce blocking of surfaces during particle deposition.
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The term excimer has since been extended to mean any multi-atom molecule with a thermally unstable (repulsive or only very weakly bonding) ground state.
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These repulsive forces between proteins prevent aggregation and facilitate dissolution.
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Repulsive forces may be placed on edges as well as on nodes in order to avoid overlap or near-overlap in the final drawing.
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This is due to the increased repulsive interactions that occur as a result of a greater number of heterocontacts between the different arms.
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There is therefore some justification for choosing the repulsive part (of the potential) as an exponential function.
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