Meaning of driving force | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Impetus; a person or thing that causes, stimulates, or motivates something to happen.
2. The force that causes something to move or a physical process to occur.

Equivalents

Examples

“Many authors see a digital revolution taking place today and stress that this is a driving force behind many changes in companies.”

“Every living creature has a driving force that pushes him in the direction of certain goals.”

“With the aim of moving toward our subsequent discussion of the driving forces behind mass indebtedness, however, we might take things a little further by condensing the original work's detailed breakdown into two very broad causes of individual indebtedness.”

“Sheikh Mohammed is the driving force behind the transformation of Dubai into one of the great cities of the modern world: a hub for business and tourism, and the world's gateway to the Middle East.”

“Marples, who later fled to Monaco to escape prosecution for fraud, was the driving force behind The Reshaping of British Railways report published on March 27 1963. Dr Richard Beeching [who wrote the report] was just his fall guy.”

“Diffusing particles experience a drift motion in addition to random diffusion, when an external driving force is applied.”

“The total driving force is the sum of two forces: an electrical force (e.g. the negative potential in the cell tends to pull in positively charged ions) and a diffusion force (based on the concentration gradient) (fig. 3-5).”

“The ions transport through the fuel cell electrolytes under the influence of both electrical potential gradient and concentration gradient as the driving forces.”

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