English

Noun

force (countable and uncountable; plural: forces)

1. (uncountable) Anything that is able to make a big changes in person or thing.
2. (physics; countable) Anything that causes a body with mass to accelerate.
3. (physics; uncountable) The vector quantity describing a force (in the previous sense) defined as the product of the mass and the acceleration induced by the force.
4. (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.

   police force

5. (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.

   show of force

6. (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.
7. (physics; countable) one of four fundamental acceleration causing forces known to exist in the universe, also known as fundamental force.

Translations

violence or constraint exerted upon or against a person or thing

physics: anything that causes a body with mass to accelerate

physics: vector quantity describing a force as the product of the mass and the acceleration induced by the force

group that aims to attack, control, or constrain

ability to attack, control, or constrain

magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate tables above. The numbering is unreliable.

• Danish: magt c (1); kraft c (2, 5); styrke c (3, 4)
• Dutch: macht f (3)
• Ekspreso: forsa
• Galician: forza f
• Indonesian: gaya (1)
• Interlingua: fortia
• Japanese: 力 (ちから , chikara) (1)
• Polish: przemoc f (1), siła f (1-4)
• Portuguese: força f
• Romanian: forţă f
• Russian: сила
• Urdu: (zor) f
• Volapük: näm

Transitive verb

to force (forces, forced, forcing)

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

   force a decision

Translations

exert violence upon

cause to occur, overcoming resistance

Translations to be checked

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate tables above. Any numbering is unreliable.

• Ekspreso: forser
• Galician: forzar
• German: zwingen (1, 2) erzwingen (3)
• Interlingua: fortiare
• Polish: używać siły
• Portuguese: forçar
• Romanian: forţa
• Spanish: forzar
• Volapük: nämön

Units of force in physics

• Imperial: foot pound
• Metric: newton

Derived terms

• force field
• forceful
• forcible
• forcibly
• enforce

See also

• Wikipedia article on force

French

Pronunciation

• /fɔʀs/, /fOʀs/

Noun

force f (plural forces)

1. force