In politics, political force is state-sanctioned coercion used to enforce the decrees of a political regime.
In law, force of law or enter or coming into force refer to legal validity. Also in law, "force (law)" involves either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry".
In philosophy, force is a term going back to Frege, allowing a distinction of statements made with assertoric force (assertions), from other kinds.
In games, including some sports, certain actions or results are said to be forced when the game's rules or conventions require them, as a "forced bet" in poker or a "forcing bid" in contract bridge.
In gardening, forcing a flower bulb means processing it so that it blooms at a different time of the year (or season) than it normally does.
In mathematics, "force" is used in the sense of given conditions' "forcing" a certain result and, therefore, in the related sense of a "brute-force" method, which usually means one that is neither efficient nor intellectually elegant but is "forced" to reach the desired result eventually.
In finance, money may be described as a "force" that can be "leveraged" to increase it.
In cooking, "force" is an obsolete word (derived from "farce" and meaning "to cut [up]") for stuffing, usually used now only of "forced meat" (or "forcemeat"), which is seasoned ground meat.
In northern England, force is an old dialect word for a waterfall and is in the names of some waterfalls, coming from Old Norsefors or foss = "waterfall".
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The strong nuclear force, or strong interaction, is associated with certain reactions between elementary particles and is responsible for holding the atomic nucleus together.
Deadly force is utilized when a person intends to cause death or serious bodily harm or when he or she recognizes personal involvement in the creation of a substantial risk that death or bodily harm will occur.
Force is a vector quantity defined as the rate of change of the momentum of the body that would be induced by that force acting alone.
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