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.
geld, money, has no connection with gold, but is cognate with Eng. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Ernest Weekley Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the youth of the city? Measure for Measure William Shakespeare Power came to him with travail and through toil, the geld of craft and of force. The number of hides that is put before us is the number of hides for geld. The scotum in this context seems to be or to include the geld. A manerium does not cease to be a manerium by being freed from geld.