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Assuming resistance is required, the following 13 results were found.

  • AETHERhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AETHER

    Newton overturns this Opinion, from divers Considerations; by showing, that the Celestial Spaces are void of all sensible Resistance: For, hence it follows, that the Matter contained therein, must be immensely rare, in regard the Resistance of Bodies is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCELERATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATION

    overturns this account is that as the pressure of the air downwards increases, so, by the known laws of statics, does the resistance or the force with which the same fluid tends to repel or drive the body upwards again. See FLUID. Others insist that the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR

    expand, every Particle of Air always exerts; and thus strives against an equal endeavour of the ambient Particles; whose Resistance happening by any means to be weakened, it straight diffuses into an immense Extent,—Hence it is, that thin glass Bubbles,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ATMOSPHEREhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ATMOSPHERE

    the Blood up to the very Heart, and the Circulation would quite cease; if Nature had not wisely contrived, that when the Resistance to the circulating Blood is greatest, the Impetus, by which the Heart contracts, should be so too.—For, upon an increase...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ARThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ART

    she is irregular, and disorderly, either through some uncommon Accident, or a Depravation in Matter, when the Resistance of some Impediment perverts her from her Course; as in the Production of Monsters. See Monster.—At other Times she is subdued and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/ACTION

    equal and contrary to each other. See REACTION and NATURE. For the actions of Powers, etc., see Power, Weight, Motion, Resistance, Friction, etc. For the Laws of the action of Fluids, etc., see Fluid, Specific Gravity, etc. Action, in Ethics or Moral...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Physics

  • ANCHORhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANCHOR

    the Water acts, to be equal, in both; yet the little Vessel, by reason of its superior Lightness, does not make so much resistance as the greater; the Defect whereof must be supplied by the Weight of the Anchor. Anchor, in Architecture and Sculpture, an...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ACCELERATED Motionhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ACCELERATED%20Motion

    The Motion of falling Bodies is an accelerated Motion:And supposing the Medium they fall through, i.e. the Air, void of Resistance; the same Motion may be also considered as uniformly accelerated. See DESCENT, etc. For the Laws of Accelerated Motion,...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • ANTIPERISTASIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ANTIPERISTASIS

    See QUALITY. This Word is Greek, Ἀντιπερίστασις; formed of ἀντί, contra against, and περιίστημι, to stand round: q.d. Resistance or Renitency against anything that surrounds or besets another. It is usually defined, "the Opposition of a contrary...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Philosophy

  • ARIEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARIES

    ARIES also denotes a Battering Ram; being a military Engine much in use among the ancient Romans, to batter and beat down the Walls of Places besieged. See MACHINE. Of this there were two kinds; the one rude and simple, the other artificial and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ASPHALTOShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASPHALTOS

    ASPHALTOS, or Asphaltum,a solid, brittle, black, inflammable, bituminous Substance, resembling Pitch, brought from India; whence it is also called Jewish Pitch. See PITCH. The Asphaltos belongs to the Class of Bitumens; and is the furthest matured and...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Unclassified

  • ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION

    ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Mechanics

  • ALEXIPHARMIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/medicine/ALEXIPHARMIC

    ALEXIPHARMIC, in Medicine, expresses that Property which a Remedy, either simple or compound, has to resist, or destroy everything of a poisonous Nature: For the Ancients had a Notion, that there was Poison in all malignant Diseases, and in the...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Ephraïm Chambers
    • Category: Medicine
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