title: Coercion (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  * Coercive diplomacy
  