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Forcing vs Fording - What's the difference?

forcing | fording |

As nouns the difference between forcing and fording

is that forcing is the art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed while fording is the act by which something is forded.

As verbs the difference between forcing and fording

is that forcing is present participle of lang=en while fording is present participle of lang=en.

forcing

English

Noun

  • (horticulture) The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed
  • (photography) An extension in the development time of an underexposed negative in order to bring out detail
  • (set theory) A technique used to prove the consistency of certain axioms in set theory. See .
  • (climatology, countable) The net flux of energy in or out of a system; the net change in an energy balance.

    • Derived terms

    * radiative forcing

    Verb

    (head)

    • fording

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is forded.
  • * (Aldo Leopold)
    • By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.