Weak form and strong form may refer to:
- Weaker and stronger versions of a hypothesis, theorem or physical law
- Weak formulations and strong formulations of differential equations in mathematics
- Differing pronunciations of words depending on emphasis; see Weak and strong forms in English
- Weak and strong pronouns
Famous quotes containing the words weak, form and/or strong:
“Against self-slaughter
There is a prohibition so divine
That cravens my weak hand.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room.
He tells you that it is time to go, but that you may stay,
If you wish. You reply that it is one and the same to you.
It was only later, after the house had materialized elsewhere,
That you remembered you forgot to ask him what form the change would take.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment’s sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)