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Repeller

Repeller \Re*pel"ler\ (-l?r), n. One who, or that which, repels.

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repeller

n. Something that repels, that which causes repulsion.

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Repeller

Repeller may refer to:

  • The opposite of an attractor, in dynamical systems' theory (more frequently than "repellor")
  • An electrode at a voltage to repel charge carriers (in vacuum or in a plasma)
  • Animal repeller
  • A device or plant that repels vermin, in horticulture or gardening
  • Reppeller, in religion, fantasy, science fiction, etc., a god, a magic item, or technical device with the power to protect against offenders
  • Turbine rotor in a free flow, e.g. a wind turbine (the term is rarely used in English)
  • A fictional villain in the Batman Beyond animated television series season 3 episode "Untouchable"

Usage examples of "repeller".

Both had learned from the Tswa to tolerate insects to a remarkable degree, but they were out of practice, so Lotta had clipped a repeller to her waist.

They were not hakuh-heth, he saw quickly, but rather humans lying atop and driving repellers like his own.

But a glance backward showed both pursuing repellers rocketing groundward as fast as their pilots could stand.

Backing slightly away from him, she began to move, to twirl, and to rise slightly off the reflective surface as the repellers integrated into her silken shoes reacted to the push-pulse of the energized floor.

Trying to do so without blanket, electronic insect repeller, food supplements, water purifier, and other gear might prove well nigh impossible.

A dose of graviphotons, the spin-l repellers, would churn up the star’s insides in a hurry.

Mosquitoes and flies, beetles and ants, all gave way as the precisely modulated stridulations of the repeller urged them aside like a drifting iceberg parting the sea.

Too steep a slope for the boat to navigate and too far to run on repellers.