coercion

1. (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.Examples: "One of the primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States is the creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion."uncountable

2. (law, uncountable) 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.uncountable

3. (countable) A specific instance of coercing.countable

4. (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.countable

5. (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.Examples: "But often the pieces of information do not fit together and have to be shifted in meaning to confirm with the rest of the sentence. These shifts are called coercion"; "...a conversion of mass nouns into count readings according to sorter and portion coercion is only possible if the denotation of a mass noun already comprises minimal parts into which the noun can be subdivided."countableuncountable

6. (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; aggression.countableuncountable