to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means : "She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"
to use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in attempt to compel one to act against his will
v t (an object to a type) to produce an object from the given object, without modifying that object, by following some set of coercion rules that must be specifically stated for any context in which this term is used The resulting object is necessarily of the indicated type, except when that type is a subtype of type complex; in that case, if a complex rational with an imaginary part of zero would result, the result is a rational rather than a complex---see section Rule of Canonical Representation for Complex Rationals
If you coerce someone into doing something, you make them do it, although they do not want to. Potter had argued that the government coerced him into pleading guilty = pressurize. to force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them coerce sb into (doing) sth (coercere, from co- ( CO-) + arcere )
To compel or constrain to any action; as, to coerce a man to vote for a certain candidate
(an object to a type) To produce a new object of the specified type, without modifying the original object The intent is to produce an object that preserves the meaning of the original object, but is an instance of the specified type
to compel or force someone to act or think in a certain way by the use of intimidation, threats or pressure
Method of converting type of numerical value The numerical calculation method is decided, when the instance which it doesn't know is passed as an argument, that the coerce method is used to convert it The coerce method returns a pair of given (, and converted) value and itself (a converted value, if necessary), as an argument The converting order of numerical types of the library of Ruby is as follows: -SugHimsi