0 present participle of force --
1 to make something happen or make someone do something difficult, unpleasant, or unusual, especially by threatening or not offering the possibility of choice: --
If the management wouldn't listen to their demands, they would have to force the issue by striking.
forced strawberries
You never tell me how you're feeling - I have to force it out of you (= make you tell me)!
I couldn't stay at their flat - I'd feel as if I was forcing myself on them (= making them allow me to stay).
I didn't actually want any more dessert, but Julia forced it on me (= made me accept it).
You could tell he was having to force back the tears (= stop himself from crying).
Hospitals are being forced to close departments because of lack of money.
[ + to infinitive ] You can't force her to make a decision.
[ + to infinitive ] I really have to force myself to be nice to him.
2 to use physical strength or effort to make something move or open: --
At higher frequencies, these eddies which form a t the forcing frequency are small and are quickly lost by coalescence.
At higher frequencies, these eddies which formed a t the forcing frequency were small and quickly lost their identities by coalescence.
Initially, the television screen was covered, forcing the par ticipants to base their comments solely on the interviewees' voices.
Steady regimes were observed when the forcing frequency was gradually increased (at constant wavemaker amplitude), until a sharp transition to a modulated regime occurred.
The preferred steady solution becomes unstable against time-periodic perturbations a t a higher value of the forcing parameter.
The progressive democratization of local and national politics reinforced this, forcing parties into more specialized and sophisticated techniques of organization.
If forcing were added to the second equation rather than to the first, then sample paths would be continuous and differentiable.
However, this relative velocity is small compared to that which the red cell experiences in navigating through the microcirculation due to pressure forcing.
