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forcing

Pronunciation: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).sɪŋ/

The English word “forcing” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

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

adjective

  1. Pertaining to a bid which requires partner to continue bidding rather than pass.

Etymology

By surface analysis, force + -ing.

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