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Moving force

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(Mech.) a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.

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From childhood also he showed the passion for the drama and the theater which resulted from the excitably dramatic quality of his own temperament and which always continued to be the second moving force of his life.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
White and grey and purple figures were scattered on the green, round wicker tables, in the middle the flame of the tea-urn made the air waver like a faulty sheet of glass, a massive green tree stood over them as if it were a moving force held at rest.
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