forcing
- Noun. (horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed.
- Noun. (photography) An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail.
- Noun. (set theory) A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory.
- Noun. (climatology, countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.
- Verb. (present participle of, force) .
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