Jump to content

Coercion (disambiguation)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Jnestorius (talk | contribs) at 16:48, 17 November 2016 (* Coercion Acts, Acts of the British parliament to suppress disorder, often in Ireland). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to behave in an involuntary way.

Coercion may also refer to:

  • Coercion (linguistics), reinterpretation of a lexeme
  • Coercive function, mathematical function that "grows rapidly" at the extremes of the space on which it is defined
  • Type conversion, in programming, is changing an entity of one data type into another
  • Coercion Acts, Acts of the British parliament to suppress disorder, often in Ireland
  • Coercivity, intensity of magnetic field needed to demagnetize a material