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coercion
English
Etymology
From Old French cohercion, from Latin coerciti? (“magisterial coercion”), from coercere, past participle coercitus (“to restrain, coerce”), from cum (“with”) + arce? (“to shut in, enclose”); see coerce.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ko?????n/, /ko?????n/
Noun
coercion (countable and uncountable, plural coercions)
- (not countable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing.
- (law, not countable) 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.
- (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
- (programming, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- (linguistics, semantics) The process by which the meaning of a word or other linguistic element is reinterpreted to match the grammatical context.
Antonyms
- noncoercion
Hyponyms
- type coercion
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
References
- coercion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- “coercion” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- coercion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- coercion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- criocone
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limitation
English
Etymology
Latin limitatio.
Morphologically limit +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?m??te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
limitation (countable and uncountable, plural limitations)
- The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
- A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
- An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
- (law) A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
- The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.
Synonyms
- (time period): prescription
Antonyms
- limitlessness
Derived terms
- limitational
- statute of limitations
Related terms
- limitative
Translations
References
- limitation at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- militation
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.mi.ta.sj??/
Noun
limitation f (plural limitations)
- limitation (action of limiting)
limitation From the web:
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- what religious practices are illegal
- limitation of religion
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