There are many ways in which forces can be manipulated. It is often easier to work with a large, complicated system of forces by reducing it to an ever decreasing number of smaller problems. This is called the resolution of forces or force systems.
- To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate.
Gelassenheit (releasement) in Meister Eckhart. The term is an old one in German intellectual history, from the theologizing of Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) to the religious thought of Reform Anabaptists and early modern mystics, to its 20th-century revival in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.