Assertion: newton | /r/CapableOf | retain object
Facets:
value: in circular motion
type: MANNER
value: in explicit analogy with the tension
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Indeed, Huygens too had employed this notion of static force in his Horologium Oscillatorium when he identified his centrifugal force with the tension in the string (or the pressure on a wall) retaining an object in circular motion, in explicit analogy with the tension exerted by a heavy body on a string from which it is dangling.