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force
force (fôrs, fors)
noun
1. The capacity to do work
or cause physical change; energy, strength, or active power: the force
of an explosion.
2. a. Power made operative
against resistance; exertion: use force in driving a nail. b. The use of
physical power or violence to compel or restrain: a confession obtained
by force.
3. a. Intellectual power
or vigor, especially as conveyed in writing or speech. b. Moral strength.
c. A capacity for affecting the mind or behavior; efficacy: the force of
logical argumentation. d. One that possesses such capacity: the forces
of evil.
4. a. A body of persons
or other resources organized or available for a certain purpose: a large
labor force. b. A person or group capable of influential action: a retired
senator who is still a force in national politics.
5. a. Military strength.
b. The entire military strength, as of a nation. c. Units of a nation's
military personnel, especially those deployed into combat: Our forces have
at last engaged the enemy.
6. Law. Legal validity.
7. Physics. A vector quantity
that tends to produce an acceleration of a body in the direction of its
application.
verb, transitive
forced, forcing, forces
1. To compel through pressure
or necessity: I forced myself to practice daily. He was forced to take
a second job.
2. a. To gain by the use
of force or coercion: force a confession. b. To move or effect against
resistance or inertia: forced my foot into the shoe. c. To inflict or impose
relentlessly: He forced his ideas upon the group.
3. a. To put undue strain
on: She forced her voice despite being hoarse. b. To increase or accelerate
(a pace, for example) to the maximum. c. To produce with effort and against
one's will: force a laugh in spite of pain. d. To use (
language)
with obvious lack of ease and naturalness.
4. a. To move, open, or
clear by force: forced our way through the crowd. b. To break down or open
by force: force a lock.
5. To rape.
6. Botany. To cause to grow
or mature by artificially accelerating normal processes.
7. Baseball. a. To put (a
runner) out on a force play. b. To allow (a run) to be scored by walking
a batter when the bases are loaded.
8. Games. To cause an opponent
to play (a particular card).
- idiom.
force (someone's) hand
To force to act or speak
prematurely or unwillingly.
in force
1. In full strength; in
large numbers: Demonstrators were out in force.
2. In effect; operative:
a rule that is no longer in force.
[Middle English, from Old
French, from Medieval Latin fortia, from neuter pl. of Latin fortis, strong.]
- force´able adjective
- forc´er noun
Synonyms: force, compel,
coerce, constrain, oblige, obligate. These verbs mean to cause a person
or thing to follow a prescribed or dictated course. Force, the most general,
usually implies the exertion of strength, especially physical power, or
the operation of circumstances that permit no alternative to compliance:
Tear gas forced the fugitives out of their hiding place. Lack of funds
will eventually force him to look for work. Compel is often interchangeable
with force, but it applies especially to an act dictated by one in authority:
Say nothing unless you're compelled to. His playing compels respect, if
not
enthusiasm.
Coerce invariably implies the use of strength or harsh measures in securing
compliance: "The way in which the man of genius rules is by persuading
an efficient minority to coerce an indifferent and self-indulgent majority"
(James Fitzjames Stephen). Constrain suggests that one is bound to a course
of action by physical or moral means or by the operation of compelling
circumstances: "I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained
to do anything" (Elizabeth I). Oblige is applicable when compliance is
brought about by the operation of authority, necessity, or moral or ethical
considerations: "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do" (Mark
Twain). Obligate applies when force is exerted by the terms of a legal
contract or promise or by the dictates of one's conscience or sense of
propriety: I am obligated to repay the loan. See also synonyms at strength.
force
force, in physics, a quantity that produces a change
in the size or shape or the MOTION of a body. Commonly experienced as a
"push" or "pull," force is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and
direction. The study of forces in equilibrium is STATICS; that of forces
and motion is DYNAMICS. Four basic types of force are known in nature.
The
gravitational
force and the
electromagnetic
force both have an
infinite
range. The STRONG INTERACTION is a short-range force holding the atomic
nucleus together, and the WEAK INTERACTION is a short-range force associated
with radioactivity and particle decay. In the METRIC SYSTEM forces are
measured in such units as the dyne (cgs system) and the newton (mks system),
which cause accelerations of, respectively, 1 cm/sec2 on a 1-gram mass
and 1 m/sec2 on a 1-kg mass. In ENGLISH UNITS OF MEASUREMENT, the pound
(lb) is used. A 1-lb force equals 444,823 dynes; 1 dyne equals 10-5 newtons.
van der Waals force
van der Waals force (vàn´
der wôlz´, wälz´) noun
A weak attractive force
between atoms or nonpolar molecules caused by a temporary change in dipole
moment
arising from a brief shift of orbital electrons to one side of one atom
or molecule, creating a similar shift in adjacent atoms or molecules.
[After Johannes Diderik van der Waals
(1837-1923), Dutch physicist.]
field of force
field of force noun
plural fields of force
A region of space throughout
which the force produced by a single agent, such as an
electric
current, is operative. Also called force field.
élan vital
élan vital (vê-tàl´)
noun
The vital force hypothesized by Henri Bergson
as a source of efficient causation and
evolution
in nature. Also called life force.
[French : élan, ardor + vital, vital.]
magnetic force
magnetic force noun
1. The force exerted between
magnetic poles, producing magnetization.
2. A force that exists between two
electrically charged moving particles.
_Star
Wars_ (vhs/ntsc)
(1977)
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An energy that occurs naturally
in the galaxy, it springs from all forms of life. It has two "sides," a good
side and a Dark Side, although this is a great oversimplification of the Force’s
existence. It has many sides, including a living element and a unifying element,
and it binds all things together in a great web of existence. The
Jedi
Knights discovered that the Force was accessible to all living beings through
the presence of midi-chlorians in their cells. The more midi-chlorians that
inhabited a being’s cells, the more the being was able to
contact
the Force. However, a high concentration of midi-chlorians did not guarantee
a being control of the Force. Only through
intense
study and dedicated training could a being become proficient in harnessing the
power of The Force. The Jedi Council discovered that younger beings had an easier
time of learning the techniques required to touch and control the Force, and
eventually developed a system that actively sought out and identified beings
with high midi-chlorian counts at their birth. With, or sometimes without, the
permission of the parents, the Jedi took children no more than one year old
away for training. Children and older beings, who had already established a
set pattern of mental and physical usage, often were unable to complete the
necessary training, and were deemed too wasteful of Jedi resources. The Jedi
Knights have historically been the most powerful users of The Force, having
trained with and learned the three basic techniques: control (the manipulation
of one's internal Force strength), sense (detection of the Force in the external
world), and alter (manipulation of matter with the Force). These techniques,
used by themselves or in combination, allow the Jedi to perform many different
activities with the Force.
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"Man is a very odd creature. And to have arisen
in a million years from the chipping of flint to launching of the space shuttle
and the hurling of instruments out of the solar system, it seems preposterous
to maintain that the forces and facts of nature as we know them could have allowed
us to do what we are doing. Instead, I take a very premodern view:
we are in league with the demiurge. We are
the children of a force that we can barely
imagine."
-
Terence
McKenna - _Archaic Revival_
p. 40
Obsess yourself with causality.
The
information
you hear is a
loophole,
technicality.
Behind every object is a mathematic;
an obscure substance
infused
with a kinetic force,
energy,
an obscure conscience shoots a gun at the feet
the world
dances.
-
_Moon
Sammy_ MP3
by
Soul
Coughing off of _Ruby Vroom_ CD
on Slash/Warner Brothers (1996)
604
release _Frontier_ by Mystic Force on
Psy
Harmonics
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will
come to your aid." -
Wolfgang
von Goethe
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