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.
gelding (plural geldings) 1  a castrated male horse. 2  any castrated male animal. ( 3 archaic) a eunuch Wyclif Bible, Acts viii. 38 They went down both into the water, Philip and the gelding, and Philip baptized him.