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A threat is a communication of intent to inflict harm or loss on another person. Intimidation is a tactic used between conflicting parties to make the other timid or psychologically insecure for coercion or control. The act of intimidation f ...
is an act of coercion.
Threat may also refer to:
Common uses
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Threat (computer)
In computer security, a threat is a potential negative action or event enabled by a vulnerability that results in an unwanted impact to a computer system or application.
A threat can be either a negative " intentional" event (i.e. hack ...
, a possible danger that might exploit a vulnerability to breach security
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Intimidation
Intimidation is a behaviour and legal wrong which usually involves deterring or coercing an individual by threat of violence. It is in various jurisdictions a crime and a civil wrong (tort). Intimidation is similar to menacing, coercion, terro ...
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Threat display
Deimatic behaviour or startle display means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey anima ...
, a behaviour aiming at intimidation of a potential enemy
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Threat of force (public international law)
Threat of force in public international law is a situation between states described by British lawyer Ian Brownlie as:
:an express or implied promise by a government of a resort to force conditional on non-acceptance of certain demands of that gov ...
, an act of coercion between nations
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
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''Threat'' (film), a 2006 American film by Matt Pizzolo
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''The Threat'' (1949 film), an American film noir directed by Felix E. Feist
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''The Threat'' (1960 film), an American crime film
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The Threat (1966 film)
is a 1966 Japanese black-and-white crime thriller film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.
Plot
Death row convicts Kawanishi and Sabu escape from prison and kidnap the grandson of cancer authority Dr. Sakata. They break into the house of Mr. Misawa and ...
, a Japanese black-and-white film
Literature
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''The Threat'' (memoir), a 2019 memoir by Andrew McCabe
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''The Threat'' (novel), a 1998 novel by K.A. Applegate
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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"The Threat" (''Dynasty''), an episode of the TV series ''Dynasty''
See also
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Threatin, an American rock band accused of being fake and a vanity project
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Triple threat (disambiguation)
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