forcing

Definition

The art of raising plants at an earlier season than is normal, especially by using a hotbed

Etymology

By surface analysis, force + -ing.

Example Sentences

• "orbital / astronomical forcing (effect on climate of slow changes in the tilt of Earth's axis and shape of its orbit)"
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• "[…] in improving the transfer function of these proxy data and in modelling the response of the climate system to the astronomical forcing over the last 3 Ma with a particular attention paid to the phase relations between insolation,[…]"