forcing

About 6.99 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act by which someone or something is forced.
2. noun The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
3. noun An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
4. noun A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics).
5. noun The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.

   orbital / astronomical forcing (effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit)

6. verb present participle and gerund of force
7. adjective Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.

Similar words

strength drive forcefulness power impel coerce violence push pressure effect

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