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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake

Meaning of "repulsion" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF REPULSION

repulsion  [rɪˈpʌlʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF REPULSION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Repulsion is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES REPULSION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

repulsion

Repulsion

Repulsion is a 1965 British psychological horror film directed by Roman Polanski, and starring Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser and Yvonne Furneaux. The screenplay was based on a scenario by Gérard Brach and Polanski. The plot focuses on a young woman left alone by her vacationing sister at their apartment, who begins reliving traumas of her past in horrific ways. Shot in London, it was Polanski's first English-language film and second feature length production, following Knife in the Water. The film debuted at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival before receiving theatrical releases in the United Kingdom and United States. Upon its release, Repulsion received considerable critical acclaim and currently is considered one of Polanski's greatest movies. It was the first installment in Polanski's "Apartment Trilogy", followed by Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, both of which are also horror films that take place primarily inside apartment buildings. The film was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Gilbert Taylor's cinematography.

Definition of repulsion in the English dictionary

The definition of repulsion in the dictionary is a feeling of disgust or aversion. Other definition of repulsion is a force tending to separate two objects, such as the force between two like electric charges or magnetic poles.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH REPULSION


avulsion
əˈvʌlʃən
compulsion
kəmˈpʌlʃən
convulsion
kənˈvʌlʃən
divulsion
daɪˈvʌlʃən
emulsion
ɪˈmʌlʃən
evulsion
ɪˈvʌlʃən
expulsion
ɪkˈspʌlʃən
impulsion
ɪmˈpʌlʃən
propulsion
prəˈpʌlʃən
pulsion
ˈpʌlʃən
retropulsion
ˌrɛtrəʊˈpʌlʃən
revulsion
rɪˈvʌlʃən
self-propulsion
ˌselfprəˈpʌlʃən
ultion
ˈʌlʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE REPULSION

repudiative
repudiator
repugn
repugnance
repugnancy
repugnant
repugnantly
repulp
repulse
repulser
repulsive
repulsively
repulsiveness
repump
repunctuation
repunit
repurchase
repurchase agreement
repure
repurify

WORDS THAT END LIKE REPULSION

commission
conversion
decision
discussion
division
exclusion
expression
extension
fusion
jet propulsion
matt emulsion
mission
occasion
passion
permission
rocket propulsion
session
submission
suspension
television

Synonyms and antonyms of repulsion in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «REPULSION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «repulsion» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of repulsion

Translation of «repulsion» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF REPULSION

Find out the translation of repulsion to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of repulsion from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «repulsion» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

排斥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

repulsión
570 millions of speakers

English

repulsion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रतिकर्षण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنافر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отталкивание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

repulsão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিকর্ষণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

répulsion
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penolakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Abstoßung
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

反発力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

반발
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Repulsion
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sức đẩy
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விலக்கத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

itme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

repulsione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

odpychanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

відштовхування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

repulsie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άπωση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afstoting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

repulsion
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frastøting
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of repulsion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «REPULSION»

The term «repulsion» is quite widely used and occupies the 48.032 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «REPULSION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about repulsion

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4 QUOTES WITH «REPULSION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word repulsion.
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William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
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Marion Cotillard
I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.
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Edward Everett
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
4
Chris Jordan
All of my work is meant to evoke a whole bunch of different layers of discord between the attraction and repulsion that we feel toward our consumer habits and our consumer lives.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REPULSION»

Discover the use of repulsion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to repulsion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
In this lively, colorful new book, Rachel Herz answers these questions and more, shedding light on an incredible range of human traits—from food preferences and sexual attraction to moral codes and political ideology—by examining them ...
Rachel Herz, 2012
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Basic Electrical & Electronics Engineering
8.12 Repulsion Type Motors The motors which use the principle as explained in the earlier section are called repulsion type motors which are categorised into four distinct groups which are as given below. 1. Repulsion Motor 2. Compensated ...
A.P.Godse U.A.Bakshi, 2007
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Commercial Electrical Wiring
John E. Traister Ronald T. Murray. however, makes them especially useful in HVAC systems to power slow-speed, direct-connected fans. Repulsion-Type Motors Repulsion-type motors are divided into several groups, including (1) ...
John E. Traister, Ronald T. Murray, 2000
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Chemistry: Principles and Practice
Greatest repulsion is between the two lone pairs Central Atoms That Have Lone Pairs In all of the examples presented thus far, the central atom has had no lone pairs of electrons. An example of a molecule with lone pairs on a central atom is ...
Daniel Reger, Scott Goode, David Ball, 2009
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Acoustic Repulsion of Jets of Gas
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Arthur Taber Jones, 2012
6
Illustrations of mechanics
Heavy Bodies made to float by Capillary Repulsion. If a small body repelling a fluid, or incapable of being wetted by it, be placed gently upon it — as, for instance, a small ball of wax, or a needle rubbed with oil, upon water — it will float.
Henry Moseley, 1839
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Testing of Repulsion Induction Motor
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.
Fu I. Chu, 2010
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Dairy Technology: Principles of Milk Properties and Processes
of motion of the hair, this causes loss of entropy and thus repulsion. This is called volume restriction. It yields one of the terms in the formula for steric repulsion. The other term is the so-called mixing term, which becomes important if the hairy ...
P. Walstra, 2013
9
Geoenvironmental Engineering
The total energy of interaction between colloidal particles can be calculated by the addition of repulsion and attraction forces. Repulsion results from inter- penetration of ion layers of adjacent particles, and from adsorption of water on surfaces ...
A.M.O. Mohamed, H.E. Antia, 1998
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The Cosmic Sphere
The atomic fields of atoms, when encountering one another, hence form a kind of field of repulsion between the atomic fields. But an atomic field is a gravity pool. A gravity pool is part of a gravitational field. This means that a gravitational field ...
Kip K. Sewell, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REPULSION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term repulsion is used in the context of the following news items.
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Maryland Deathfest Adds Testament, Repulsion, Goblin, Nuclear …
Of the many adds, some of the more veteran acts include thrash unit Testament, Italian prog guys Goblin, death metal legends Repulsion, first wave hardcore ... «Exclaim!, Jul 15»
2
Photos: Repulsion & Dehumanized desecrated Saint Vitus
Michigan death grind legends Repulsion played a rare one-off concert at Brooklyn's Saint Vitus this past Sunday night (4/26), which marked the band's first live ... «Next Mosh, Apr 15»
3
Your Repulsion Funds Katie Hopkins
In a particularly bizarre Season 18 Episode of South Park, Lorde (who we find out is actually Stan's father Randy Marsh plus wig plus autotune) is worried that ... «Huffington Post UK, Apr 15»
4
Madonna kisses younger man. Cue shock, horror and repulsion
At the Coachella music festival on the weekend, a 60-year-old man wore a schoolboy's uniform and jumped around on stage doing exactly what he's loved ... «The Daily Telegraph, Apr 15»
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Their crimes provoke repulsion but it is our duty to rehabilitate sex …
Their crimes provoke repulsion but it is our duty to rehabilitate sex offenders. Peter Stanford. In the wake of Stoke Mandeville's report on Jimmy Savile, ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
6
A repulsive material: New hydrogel properties dominated by …
The field maximizes the electrostatic repulsion between them and entices them into a quasi-crystalline structure. They naturally orient themselves face to face, ... «Phys.Org, Dec 14»
7
'The Babadook' is like Roman Polanski's 'Repulsion' for moms
Few ordinary aspects of life carry as much latent terror as being a parent. Frazzled, middle-aging Amelia (Essie Davis) is living the nightmare. Still traumatized by ... «Baltimore City Paper, Dec 14»
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Do Parallel Universes Really Exist? Scientists Claim Nearby Worlds …
(Photo : Youtube) Parallel universes actually exist, as a matter of fact, they influence and interact with each other through a subtle force of repulsion, according to ... «Design & Trend, Nov 14»
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The Physics of the Hendo Hoverboard
Let's look at electromagnetic repulsion physics that it might use. If you read the description on the kickstarter page, it says: “The magic behind the hoverboard lies ... «Wired, Oct 14»
10
Relaxation and repulsion helps viruses pack DNA
The molecular motor that folds and packs DNA into a virus is at its most efficient when the DNA shows some self-repulsion. That is the surprising finding of ... «physicsworld.com, Jun 14»

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