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forcing

/ˈfɔɹ.sɪŋ/ sustantivo C2
  1. The act by which someone or something is forced. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed (countable, uncountable)
  3. An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail (countable, uncountable)
  4. A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics). (countable, uncountable)
  5. The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance. (countable) · orbital / astronomical forcing (effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit)

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“I have to use this room as a place of business,” he said, “and these people are my clients.” Again I had an opportunity of asking him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 16 · B2
The first ones had been caused by some one forcing an instrument through the slit between the sashes, and the second by the catch being pressed back.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 84 · B2
Putting away the letter immediately, and forcing a smile, she said,--
Pride and Prejudice, p. 212 · B2
Blindly we ran through the gloom, blundering against boulders, forcing our way through gorse bushes, panting up hills and rushing down slopes, heading always in the direction whence those dreadful sounds had come.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 165 · C1

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