Definitions for: Coercive


[adj] serving or intended to coerce; "authority is directional instead of coercive"



Webster (1913) Definition: Co*er"cive, a.
Serving or intended to coerce; having power to constrain. --
Co*er"cive*ly, adv. -- Co*er"cive*ness, n.

Coercive power can only influence us to outward
practice. --Bp.
Warburton.

Coercive or Coercitive force (Magnetism), the power or
force which in iron or steel produces a slowness or
difficulty in imparting magnetism to it, and also
interposes an obstacle to the return of a bar to its
natural state when active magnetism has ceased. It plainly
depends on the molecular constitution of the metal.
--Nichol.

The power of resisting magnetization or
demagnization is sometimes called coercive force.
--S. Thompson.

Synonyms: powerful

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