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Coercion vs Constraint - What's the difference?

coercion | constraint |

As nouns the difference between coercion and constraint

is that coercion is actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing while constraint is something that constrains.

coercion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (not countable) Actual]] or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of [[coerce, coercing.
  • (legal, 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.
  • (countable) A specific instance of coercing.
  • (computing, countable) Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.

    • Related terms

    * coerce * coercer * coercible

    References

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    constraint

    English

    (wikipedia constraint)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that constrains.
  • (mathematics) A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
  • A restriction.

    • Derived terms

    * constraint satisfaction

    Related terms

    * restraint