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In physics, force is what, when unopposed, changes the motion of an object.
Force is also a dialectal term for a "waterfall".
Force or forces may also refer to:
Places
- Force, Marche, a municipality in Ascoli Piceno, Italy
- Forcé, Mayenne, France; a commune
- Force, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Pennsylvania
People
- The Force family of American drag racing:
- John Force (born 1949), family patriarch; father of four daughters, three of whom are or have been racers themselves:
- Ashley Force Hood (born 1982)
- Brittany Force (born 1986)
- Courtney Force (born 1988)
- John Force (born 1949), family patriarch; father of four daughters, three of whom are or have been racers themselves:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Force (comics), a character in the Marvel Comics Iron Man titles
- Major Force, a fictional character in the DC Comics universe
Films
- Force (film series), a series of Indian Hindi-language action-thriller films
- Force (2011 film), first installment of the series
- Force 2 (2016), second installment of the series
- Force (2014 film), an Indian Bengali-language film
Music
- Force, the early name of the Swedish band Europe
- Force (A Certain Ratio album), 1986
- Force (Superfly album), 2012
- "Force" (Alan Walker song), 2015
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Forcing (magic), a magician's technique sometimes called a "force"
- Sonic Forces, a video game
Law, policing, and military
- Force (law), unlawful violence or lawful compulsion
- Forces, the armed forces collectively of a nation's military
- Security forces, the name of the armed forces in some nations
- The force, the police force of a particular jurisdiction
Mathematics and science
- Brute force method, proof by exhaustion in mathematics
- Fundamental force, an interaction between particles that cannot be explained by other interactions
Sports
Teams
- Cleveland Force (disambiguation), defunct indoor soccer teams based in Northeast Ohio
- Georgia Force, an Arena Football League team
- Ipswich Force, an Australian basketball team
- Kansas City Force, an American women's gridiron football team
- San Antonio Force, an Arena Football League team that played during the 1992 season
- Western Force, an Australian rugby union team in the Super 14
Other
- FORCE (Formula One Race Car Engineering), a design and construction company within the Haas Lola Formula One team
- Force play, a situation in baseball where the runner is compelled to advance to the next base
Other uses
- Force (cereal), a wheat flake cereal
- Coming into force
- Force Motors, an Indian automotive company
- Force-feeding, the practice of feeding a human or other animal against their will
- Fuerza (political party) (English translation: Force), a political party in Guatemala
- The Force, a power in the Star Wars franchise
See also
- Armed forces (disambiguation)
- Brute force (disambiguation)
- Elite Force (disambiguation)
- Energy (disambiguation)
- Force 1 (disambiguation)
- Force 10 (disambiguation)
- Force B (disambiguation)
- Force Commander (disambiguation)
- Force field (disambiguation)
- Force majeure (disambiguation)
- Force of Nature (disambiguation)
- Force One (disambiguation)
- Force XXI (disambiguation)
- Forcing (disambiguation)
- Physical force (disambiguation)
- Special forces (disambiguation)
- Taskforce (disambiguation)
- X force (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Force
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