Forcing may refer to:
- Forcing (set theory), a technique for obtaining proofs in set theory
- Forcing (recursion theory)
- Radiative forcing, the difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy in a given climate system
- Cloud forcing, the difference between the radiation budget components for average cloud conditions and cloud-free conditions
- Forcing (magic), a technique by which a magician forces one outcome from a card draw
- Forcing, driving a harmonic oscillator at a particular frequency
Famous quotes containing the word forcing:
“Already determined dawn began to lay
In place across a cloud the slender ray
For prying beneath and forcing the lids of sight,
And loosing the pent-up music of overnight.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams, wherein often we see ourselves in masquerade,—the droll disguises only magnifying and enhancing a real element, and forcing it on our distinct notice,—we shall catch many hints that will broaden and lighten into knowledge of the secret of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)