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forcings

forcings is the plural of forcing.

Meaning of forcing

Noun

forcing (countable and uncountable, plural forcings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is forced.
  2. The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
  3. An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
  4. A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See forcing (mathematics).
  5. (countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
    • 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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Phrases with forcings

Questions about forcings

What is forcings the plural of?
Forcings is the plural of forcing.

Words near forcings in the dictionary

  1. forcing someone's hand
  2. forcing something down someone's throat
  3. forcing the pace
  4. forcing the voucher
  5. forcingly
  6. forcings
  7. forcipal
  8. forcipate
  9. forcipated
  10. forcipation
  11. forcipes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forcings (page history and authors); forcing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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