∙ Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. 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. law, not countable
∙ A specific instance of coercing. countable
∙ Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type. programming, countable