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Forced Repetitions: Assistance to perform additional repetitions of an exercise when muscles can no longer complete movement on their own.

Forced Wave: A wave generated and maintained by a continuous force.

Unforced Error: During play, an error in a service or return shot that cannot be attributed to any factor other than poor judgement and execution by the player.

Forced-Choice: In test construction, used to define multiple-choice tests or questionnaires requiring the testee to choose an answer from a collection of possible answers. Also refers to a performance appr . . . View Full Definition

Forced Ranking: A performance appraisal system where raters are asked to identify a certain percentage of employees who are top performers ready for advancement and those employees falling into the bottom p . . . View Full Definition

Forced Conversion: The risk that there will be prolonged interruption of operations for a project finance enterprise due to fire, flood, storm, or some other factor beyond the control of the project's sponsors.

Forced Distribution: An appraisal rating method intended to prevent rater errors by requiring the rater to force ratings into a bell-shaped curve.

Forced Error: When an opponent hits a difficult shot that causes the player to miss. As opposed to the unforced error

Forced air heating : A common form of heating with natural gas, propane, oil or electricity as a fuel. Air is heated in the furnace and distributed through a set of metal ducts to various areas of the house.