The act of making someone do something against their will.
The forcing of the workers to stay overtime led to a strike.
A process in horticulture where plants are made to grow or flower out of their natural season.
The gardener used forcing to have tulips bloom in winter.
In set theory, a technique used to prove the consistency or independence of mathematical statements by constructing larger models that satisfy specified conditions.
Paul Cohen introduced forcing to demonstrate the independence of the continuum hypothesis.
An external influence that drives a system away from equilibrium, especially one that alters Earths energy balance in climatology.
Greenhouse gases act as a positive radiative forcing on the global climate.
A term or function in a differential equation that represents an external input acting on the system.
The sinusoidal forcing in the equation excites the oscillator at its natural frequency.