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  2. Death drive - Wikipedia

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    In a sense, the death drive is a force that is not essential to the life of an organism (unlike an "instinct") and tends to denature it or make it behave in ways that are sometimes counter-intuitive. In other words, the term death "instinct" is simply a false representation of death drive.

  3. Juggernaut - Wikipedia

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    The figurative sense of the English word juggernaut, as a merciless, destructive, and unstoppable force, became common in the mid-nineteenth century. Mary Shelley used the term in her novel The Last Man , published in 1826, to describe the plague: "like Juggernaut, she proceeds crushing out the being of all who strew the high road of life".

  4. Glossary of physics - Wikipedia

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    1. An applied force or system of forces that tends to strain or deform a physical body. 2. A measure of the internal forces acting within a deformable body. 3. A quantitative measure of the average force per unit area of a surface within a body on which internal forces act. stress–strain curve string duality string theory structural load

  5. Devil - Wikipedia

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    It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. [2] Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the devil can be summed up as 1) a principle of evil independent from God , 2) an aspect of God, 3) a created being turning evil (a fallen angel ) or 4) a symbol of human evil.

  6. Sabotage - Wikipedia

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    Arquilla and Rondfeldt, in their work entitled Networks and Netwars, differentiate their definition of "netwar" from a list of "trendy synonyms", including "cybotage", a portmanteau from the words "sabotage" and "cyber". They dub the practitioners of cybotage "cyboteurs" and note while all cybotage is not netwar, some netwar is cybotage. [40]

  7. Explosion - Wikipedia

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    Explosion of unserviceable ammunition and other military items The explosion of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb.. An explosion is a rapid expansion in volume of a given amount of matter associated with an extreme outward release of energy, usually with the generation of high temperatures and release of high-pressure gases.

  8. Olethros - Wikipedia

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    Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the King James Bible defines the word as meaning "ruin"; i.e., death, punishment, or destruction.Olethros is found in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 5:5, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:9, and 1 Timothy 6:9, where it is translated "destruction" in most versions of the Bible.

  9. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    Gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, but there are other factors affecting slope stability that produce specific conditions that make a slope prone to failure. In many cases, the landslide is triggered by a specific event (such as a heavy rainfall , an earthquake , a slope cut to build a road, and many others ...