Coercion (disambiguation)

Coercion is the practice of compelling a person to behave in an involuntary way.

Coercion may also refer to:

• Coercion (linguistics), reinterpretation of a lexeme
• Coercive function, mathematical function that "grows rapidly" at the extremes of the space on which it is defined
• Type conversion, in programming, is changing an entity of one data type into another
• Coercion Acts, Acts of the British parliament to suppress disorder, often in Ireland
• Coercivity, intensity of magnetic field needed to demagnetize a material