ALL meanings of coercion
co·er·cion
C c - uncountable noun coercion Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do. 3
- noun coercion the act or power of coercing 3
- noun coercion government by force 3
- abbreviation Definition of COERCION in Technology implicit type conversion 3
- noun coercion the act of coercing; use of force or intimidation to obtain compliance. 1
- noun coercion force or the power to use force in gaining compliance, as by a government or police force. 1
- noun coercion The practice of persuading someone to do something by using force or threats. 1
- noun coercion forcing by intimidation 1
- noun Technical meaning of coercion (programming) (Or "coercion") The abilty of some compilers to automatically insert type conversion functions where an expression of one type is used in a context where another type is expected. A common example is coercion of integers to reals so that an expression like sin(1) is compiled as sin(integerToReal(1)) where sin is of type Real -> Real. A coercion is usually performed automatically by the compiler whereas a cast is an explicit type conversion inserted by the programmer. See also subtype. 1
- noun coercion (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. 0
- noun coercion (law, not countable) Use of physical or moral force to compel a person to do something, or to abstain from doing something, thereby depriving that person of the exercise of free will. 0
- noun coercion (Countable Noun) A specific instance of coercing. 0
- noun coercion (Countable Noun) (computing) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. 0