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Answer for the clue "Force in tornado unleashed as Shuttle moves? ", 10 letters:
to-and-fro

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
(alternative spelling of to and fro English) adv. (alternative spelling of to and fro English) n. (alternative spelling of to and fro English) v (alternative spelling of to and fro English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
To \To\ (?, emphatic or alone, ?, obscure or unemphatic), prep. [AS. t[=o]; akin to OS. & OFries. t[=o], D. toe, G. zu, OHG. zuo, zua, z[=o], Russ. do, Ir. & Gael. do, OL. -do, -du, as in endo, indu, in, Gr. ?, as in ? homeward. [root]200. Cf. Too , Tatoo ...

Usage examples of to-and-fro.

He now fixed, nailed, this tender creature with his home-driven wedge, so that she lay passive by force, and unable to stir, till beginning to play a strain of arms against this vein of delicacy, as he urged the to-and-fro confriction, he awaken'd, rous'd, and touch'd her so to the heart, that unable to contain herself, she could not but reply to his motions as briskly as her nicety of frame would admit of, till the raging stings of the pleasure rising towards the point, made her wild with the intolerable sensations of it, and she now threw her legs and arms about at random, as she lay lost in the sweet transport.

This to-and-fro movement of the pistons is converted by the rods and cranks into rotary motion, each piston turning the driving wheels one half turn on each stroke of the cycle.