Force (disambiguation)
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Force has several meanings:
- Force, influence that causes mass to accelerate, such as gravity, friction, or a push. Force is defined by Newton's Second Law as F = m · a.
- Coercion, compelling a person to some involuntary action using actual or threatened harm.
- Actions or results mandated by the rules, in games, sports, and logic (such as a "forced bet" in poker or a "forcing bid" in contract bridge).
Force can also refer to:
In law:
- Force (law), usually defined as either unlawful violence (eg. a forced entry) or lawful compulsion (e.g. police impoundment).
- A law coming into force; when a regulation or statute takes effect and has the "force of law" behind it.
In mathematics and logic:
- Proof by exhaustion, also known as the "brute-force" method. A proof by exhaustion simply examines all possibilities.
- Forcing (mathematics), a modern proof-technique of set theory.
- A distinction between assertions and other statements, used by the logician Gottlob Frege.
In sports:
- Western Force, an Australian rugby union team in the Super 14.
- Force play, a situation in baseball where the runner must advance to the next base (or become a "force out").
In the military and the police:
- A military unit; any operational grouping of such units.
- Task force, a term used initially by the Navy for a group with a specific mission, now in wide use.
- The police force, sometimes shortened to simply "The Force."
- The armed forces, all branches of a country's military.
Force can also mean:
- The Force (Star Wars), mystical energy in the Star Wars universe.
- A (card magic) trick wherein the spectator picks a seemingly random item ("Pick a card, pick any card"), but the process is rigged so that they receive a pre-selected item known to the performer.
- Forcing (agriculture), techniques in gardening and agriculture for growing plants out of season.
- Force (cereal), a brand of wheat flakes cereal first produced by the Force Food Company in 1901.
- GeForce and nForce, computer graphics chips made by NVIDIA.
- The original name of the band Europe (band).
- Fundamental interaction, mechanisms by which particles interact, sometimes called fundamental forces.
- Stuffing (archaic usage), usually used now only as in "forced meat" (or "forcemeat"), which is seasoned ground meat (derived from farce and meaning "to cut [up]").
- A waterfall (archaic usage), a usage in northern England. Force is in the names of some waterfalls, coming from the Old Norse fors or foss.
- Force, Italy, a town.
- Force (comics), a character from the Marvel Comics Iron Man titles.
[edit] See also
- The Force (disambiguation)
- Energy (disambiguation)
- Brute force (disambiguation)
- Special forces (disambiguation)
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