Usually means: Force pushing objects away from each other.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word repulsion:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. repulsion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. repulsion: Merriam-Webster
  3. repulsion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. repulsion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. repulsion: Collins English Dictionary
  6. repulsion: Vocabulary.com
  7. Repulsion, repulsion: Wordnik
  8. repulsion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. repulsion: Wiktionary
  10. repulsion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. repulsion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. repulsion: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. repulsion: Dictionary.com
  14. repulsion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. repulsion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Repulsion (band), Repulsion (film), Repulsion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Repulsion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. repulsion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. repulsion: Rhymezone
  20. repulsion, repulsin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. repulsion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. repulsion: FreeDictionary.org
  23. repulsion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. repulsion: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Repulsion (disambiguation), repulsion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Repulsion (disambiguation), repulsion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. repulsion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  5. repulsion: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Repulsion: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
noun:  An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
noun:  (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

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