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Wiktionary
forcingnoun
The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
forcingnoun
The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
forcingnoun
An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
forcingnoun
A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory
Webster Dictionary
Forcing
of Force
Forcingnoun
the accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition
Forcingnoun
the art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial heat
Wikidata
Forcing
In the mathematical discipline of set theory, forcing is a technique invented by Paul Cohen for proving consistency and independence results. It was first used, in 1963, to prove the independence of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Forcing was considerably reworked and simplified in the 1960s, and has proven to be an extremely powerful technique both within set theory and in areas of mathematical logic such as recursion theory. Descriptive set theory uses both the notion of forcing from recursion theory as well as set theoretic forcing. Forcing has also been used in model theory but it is common in model theory to define genericity directly without mention of forcing.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
forcing
The operation of making a bullet take the grooves of a rifle. This was formerly effected in various ways, by flattening the bullet in its seat with the ramrod, by using a patch, etc. (See Projectiles, Bullets.) The term is not much used at the present day.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of forcing in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of forcing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of forcing in a Sentence
It’s a sickening irony that he’s doing this by dangling millions of federally provided funds for COVID-19 relief and forcing school districts to choose between the health and safety of kids and educators, or millions in additional funding that Republicans have withheld for years, with the delta variant running rampant and COVID-19 cases among children on the rise, it’s disgusting to put a bounty on spreading this illness to kids and punishing schools that try to operate safely.
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse:
The president is forcing workers back into unsafe plants and Mitch McConnell is trying to slam the courthouse door on the workers who get hurt.
But, here's the silver lining. This is actually forcing them to look at systems harder than they otherwise might. So this difficult, long and tedious exercise will eventually make RBS a much better and more efficient bank.
It is uncertain what constrained our cemetery, forcing such an overuse of each square meter of soil, it was never clear whether the cemetery was circumscribed so that all burials were forced into a particular plot or whether the burials were clustered around some feature in the landscape. In either case, if this measured density was extrapolated across just the excavated areas, the number of burials would top 1200 persons.
I believe this election is forcing me to choose between two unconstitutional methods of execution, and I do not intend to waive any challenges to electrocution or firing squad by making an election.
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