An overwhelming force. / (law) An unavoidable catastrophe, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal obligation.

A method of accomplishing something primarily by means of strength, without the use of great skill, mechanical aids or thought.

(transitive) To solve (a computational problem) by brute force. / (computing) To break a password, encryption, or any other protection mechanism by brute force.

(physics) A long-range fundamental force that acts between charged bodies, mediated by the exchange of photons.

(physics, chemistry) any of the attractive or repulsive interactions that occur between atoms or molecules and become significant at separations of about 1 nanometer or less

(business, government, military) A group of people working towards a particular task, project, or activity, especially assigned in a particular capacity.

(law enforcement) Any police organization; a constabulary.

(physics) A very long-range, but relatively weak fundamental force of attraction that acts between all particles that have mass; believed to be mediated by gravitons.

(physics, meteorology) A fictitious force apparently exerted on any moving body (including a parcel of air) due to the rotation of the earth, observed as a deflection of the body to the right of its direction of travel (i.e., clockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere, or to the left (anticlockwise) in the Southern Hemisphere; any equivalent apparent force that deflects objects in a rotating reference frame.

anything, such as peer pressure, that makes the people in a society behave according to certain norms