Coercion (disambiguation)
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Coercion can mean a variety of things in different contexts:
- In the social sciences, coercion is any human activity that reduces the set of another person’s feasible choices by applying physical force or threat of such toward that person.
- In linguistics, coercion is when the grammatical context causes the language-user to reinterpret all or parts of the semantic and/or formal features of a lexeme that appears in it.
- Coercive function in mathematics , a function that "grows rapidly"
- In computer science, implicit type conversion is called coercion.
- Coercion is also the name of a band.
- Coercion Act is the name of many laws passed in a number of different countries.
- Coercion Records, a record label.
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