Meanings of passive force in English

This is a passive force, and its passiveness only makes it more formidable.

Wherefore nothing prevents such a passive force being nobler than such an active one.

But there is no harm in bearing in mind that persuasion is not necessarily a passive force.

But the will is a passive force: for it is a "mover moved" (De Anima iii, 10).

Intraoperative experiments demonstrate that high muscle passive force is associated with sarcomeres that are abnormally stretched, although otherwise normal, with fewer sarcomeres in series.

The atmospheres are the active forces, the waters are the mediate forces, and the lands are the passive forces, from which all effects have existence.