force

Definitions

• Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
• Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
• (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
• (countable) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
• Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
• (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
• (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
• (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
• (legal) Legal validity.
• (legal) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
• (linguistics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
• (humorous) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional universe created by . See usage note.