1. brute force - Noun
2. brute force - Verb
A method of accomplishing something primarily by means of strength, without the use of great skill, mechanical aids or thought.
We lifted the car by brute force.
(computer science) A method of computation wherein the computer is let to try all permutations of a problem until one is found that provides a solution, in contrast to the implementation of a more intelligent algorithm.
(transitive) To solve (a computational problem) by brute force.
(computing) To break a password, encryption, or any other protection mechanism by brute force.
brute-force (third-person singular simple present brute-forces, present participle brute-forcing, simple past and past participle brute-forced)
Alternative spelling of brute force
brute-force
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay
When in doubt, use brute force. Ken Thompson
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. Havelock Ellis
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. George Bancroft
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies. Adin Ballou