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/feeld/, n.1. Cyrus West, 1819-92, U.S. financier: projector of the first Atlantic cable.2. David Dudley, Jr., 1805-94, U.S. jurist (brother of Cyrus West and Stephen Johnson Field).3. Erastus Salisbury, 1805-1900, U.S. painter.4. Eugene, 1850-95, U.S. poet and journalist.5. John, 1782-1837, Irish pianist and composer.6. Marshall, 1834-1906, U.S. merchant and philanthropist.7. Stephen Johnson, 1816-99, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1863-97 (brother of Cyrus West and David Dudley Field).
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IIn physics, a region in which each point is affected by a force.Objects fall to the ground because they are affected by the force of earth's gravitational field (see gravitation). A paper clip, placed in the magnetic field surrounding a magnet, is pulled toward the magnet, and two like magnetic poles repel each other when one is placed in the other's magnetic field. An electric field surrounds an electric charge; when another charged particle is placed in that region, it experiences an electric force that either attracts or repels it. The strength of a field, or the forces in a particular region, can be represented by field lines; the closer the lines, the stronger the forces in that part of the field. See also electromagnetic field.II(as used in expressions)Bosworth Field Battle ofequal field systemField MarshallField SallyField Stephen JohnsonStockton Robert Fieldwell field systemElysian FieldsFields Dame GracieFields DorothyFields W.C.Fielding Henry* * *
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