Forcing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. In horticulture, the art or practice of raising plants by artificial heat, at a season earlier than the natural one.
  • noun. In gunnery, the act of making a bullet take the grooves of a rifle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The accomplishing of any purpose violently, precipitately, prematurely, or with unusual expedition.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a plant bed having an under layer of fermenting manure, the fermentation yielding bottom heat for forcing plants; a hotbed.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. a fire engine.
  • noun. a tight fit, as of one part into a hole in another part, which makes it necessary to use considerable force in putting the two parts together.
  • noun. a greenhouse for the forcing of plants, fruit trees, etc.
  • noun. a powerful press for putting together or separating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle.
  • noun. See Force pump (b).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
  • noun. An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
  • noun. A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory
  • verb. Present participle of force.
  • Word Usage
    "Tim may or may not be correct in claiming that Willis misused the term forcing, but what physical difference does it make?"
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    force