"conservative force" meaning in All languages combined

See conservative force on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: conservative forces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} conservative force (plural conservative forces)
  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conservative, force.
    Sense id: en-conservative_force-en-noun-qtW~FxHV
  2. (physics) A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop. Categories (topical): Physics
    Sense id: en-conservative_force-en-noun-X9xZtkRR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 77 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for conservative force meaning in All languages combined (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conservative forces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conservative force (plural conservative forces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conservative, force."
      ],
      "id": "en-conservative_force-en-noun-qtW~FxHV",
      "links": [
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative#English"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Physics",
          "orig": "en:Physics",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop."
      ],
      "id": "en-conservative_force-en-noun-X9xZtkRR",
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "zero",
          "zero"
        ],
        [
          "closed",
          "closed"
        ],
        [
          "loop",
          "loop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "conservative force"
  ],
  "word": "conservative force"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "conservative forces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "conservative force (plural conservative forces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conservative, force."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conservative",
          "conservative#English"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Physics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physics",
          "physics"
        ],
        [
          "force",
          "force"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent"
        ],
        [
          "path",
          "path"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "object",
          "object"
        ],
        [
          "zero",
          "zero"
        ],
        [
          "closed",
          "closed"
        ],
        [
          "loop",
          "loop"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physics) A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "physics"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "conservative force"
  ],
  "word": "conservative force"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.