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Forking vs Forcing - What's the difference?

forking | forcing |

As verbs the difference between forking and forcing

is that forking is while forcing is .

As nouns the difference between forking and forcing

is that forking is division into forks while forcing is (horticulture) the art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed.

forking

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • division into forks
    • the forkings of a road, or of a deer's antlers

    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

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