meaning of coercion
1. The act or process of coercing.
2. The application to another of either physical or moral force. When the force is physical, and cannot be resisted, then the act produced by it is a nullity, so far as concerns the party coerced. When the force is moral, then the act, though voidable, is imputable to the party doing it, unless he be so paralyzed by terror as to act convulsively. At the same time coercion is not negatived by the fact of submission under force. "Coactus volui" (I consented under compulsion) is the condition of mind which, when there is volition forced by coercion, annuls the result of such coercion.
3. coercion implicit type conversion COFF Common Object File Format COGENT COmpiler and GENeralized Translator. A compiler writing language with pattern-directed string and list processing features, for CDC 3600 and CDC 3800. A program consists of productions defining a context-free language, plus analysis and synthesis function generators. ["COGENT Programming Manual", J. C. Reynolds, ANL-7022, Argonne Mar 1965]. [Sammet 1969, p. 638]. ["An Introduction to the COGENT System", J. C. Reynolds, Proc ACM 20th Natl Conf, 1965].
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