conservative force
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[edit]conservative force (plural conservative forces)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see conservative, force.
- (physics) A force the work done by which is independent of the path taken and depends only on the initial and final positions of the object; equivalently, the total work done by a conservative force is equal to zero when the path taken is a closed loop.