Force

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1 Noun 1.1 Units 1.2 Translations 2 Verb 2.3 Translations

Noun

1. violence, compulsion, or constraint exerted upon or against a person or thing
2. (physics) mass × acceleration
3. a group intended to attack, control, or constrain

   police force

4. the ability to attack, control, or constrain

   show of force

5. A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand

• Customary: foot pound
• Metric: newton

• Dutch: kracht f (2), macht f (3)
• Ekspreso: forsa
• Finnish: voima
• French: force f (2, 3)
• German: Kraft f
• Galician: forza f
• Indonesian: gaya (1)
• Interlingua: fortia
• Italian: forza
• Japanese: 力 (ちから, chikara) (1)
• Polish: przemoc f (1), siła f (1-4)
• Portuguese: força f
• Romanian: forţă f
• Russian: сила
• Spanish: fuerza f
• Swedish: kraft
• Urdu: zor f
• Volapük: näm

1. to exert violence, compulsion, or constraint upon or against a person or thing
2. do cause to occur, overcoming inertia or resistance, eg. force a decision