| 单词 | living force |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliving force living force n. [after post-classical Latin vis viva (G. W. Leibniz, in Acta Eruditorum (1695) 149)] Physics (now historical) the operative force of a moving or acting body; = vis viva at vis n.2 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > [noun] > kinetics > operative force of moving body living force1728 vis viva1780 force1841 1728 Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 387 The dead Force, was always proportional to the Square of the Velocity (which these Gentlemen [sc. Leibniz and others] affect fantastically to call the living Force). 1876 P. G. Tait Lect. Recent Adv. in Physical Sci. (ed. 2) xiv. 355 That which is denoted by the term Living Force, though it has absolutely no right to be called force, is something as real as matter itself. 1972 M. Kline Math. Thought xxiv. 587 The quantity mv2..is called the kinetic energy; in Lagrange's day it was called living force. < as lemmas |
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