coercive force
a measure of the magnetization of a ferromagnetic material as expressed by the external magnetic field strength necessary to demagnetize it. Measured in amperes per metre: Compare coercivity
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How to use coercive force in a sentence
Meaning, one was left to discern, that religion is self-evidently a coercive force for ill.
Karen Armstrong’s New Rule: Religion Isn’t Responsible for Violence | Patricia Pearson | October 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy this resource, I mean, that joint coercive force, which any two of these powers are able to exercise over the other.
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks | Edward Wortley MontaguThe sentiment noblesse oblige was once the name for the coercive force exerted on a noble by the code of his class.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerThis cynical declaration is at least a recognition that the bond of union is not merely one of coercive force.
Democracy and Education | John DeweyThe iron possesses coercive force, or magnetic rigidity, and a steel ring would show more of it.
Any dictatorship, whether of a single man, a group or class, must rest ultimately upon oppressive and coercive force.
Bolshevism | John Spargo
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