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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Force is the push or pull that accelerates a body having mass. Force is a vector quantity, having both magnitude and direction.

According to Newton's Second Law of Motion, force is defined as: , where m,v and a are the mass, velocity and resulting acceleration of the body experiencing the force.