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noun
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
- a person's brother or sister
noun
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
- (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
- (informal) A form of address to a woman.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group
- a female person who has the same parents as another person
verb
noun
- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- (computing, computing theory) A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.
- (genealogy) A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- (linguistics) A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
- (horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
- (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
- successive generations of kin
noun
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
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- (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- latticework used to support climbing plants
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noun
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
verb
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
noun
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- any thickened enlargement
noun
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
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- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
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noun
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
- (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- (figurative) An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- an immature childish person
- a member of a clan or tribe
noun
- (computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
- (mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).
- (technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.
- (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
- (medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
- (topology) Any collection τ of subsets of a given set X that contains both the empty set and X, and which is closed under finitary intersections and arbitrary unions.
- topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)
- the configuration of a communication network
- the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region
- the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions
noun
- (graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
- (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
- (video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
- an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on
noun
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
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noun
- (computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
- (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
- (Australia, slang, countable) An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.
- (countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
- (uncountable) A type of boot polish.
- (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
- (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
- (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
- (slang, countable) A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.
- (countable) A chicken nugget.
- a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
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- (graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (topology) A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
- (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.
- (applied mathematics, statistics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
- (linguistics, typography) A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
- a visual display of information
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes
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- (computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- (literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
- (philosophy of mathematics) The ontological view of mathematics as a mere collection of string manipulation rules.
- (music) The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
- (mathematics, physics) A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
- Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
- (linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.
- the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
- the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
noun
- (mathematics) A leaf vertex of a tree data structure.
- (mathematics) A point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set.
- (mathematics) The maximum or minimum of a function.
- A point that is physically located farthest in the direction of the edge of something.
- A standpoint that goes farthest in some dimension or on some criterion.
- the point located farthest from the middle of something
noun
- (computing theory) An entity that resembles, but is not in fact, a state in a state machine or similar.
- (politics) A geopolitical entity which has some of the trappings of an independently-governed country or territory, but which lacks real independence and is not recognized as a self-governing political entity by the international community of nations.
noun
- (graph theory) An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.
- (geometry) The geometric centroid of the system obtained by placing a mass equal to the magnitude of the exterior angle at each vertex of the system.
- (geometry) Any of the 20 points located at the 3 by 3 intersections of the 60 Pascal lines which are produced by extending the triplets on opposite sides of a conic section in Pascal's theorem for all permutations of verices.
- (geometry) The point on the circumcircle of a triangle that lies at the intersection of three lines through the vertices of the triangle, where those lines are parallel to the corresponding sides of the first Brocard triangle.
- (electronics) One vertex of a Steiner tree.
noun
- (graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
- (statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
- (of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
- (geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
- (geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
- the center of mass of an object of uniform density
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- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
- (taxonomy) The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
- a person's brother or sister
noun
- (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
- (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
- Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
- A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
- A female fellow member of a religious community, church, trades union etc.
- A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
- One of two tornados that form in close proximity at the same time or in quick succession.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
- (usually attributively) Something in the same class.
- (informal) A form of address to a woman.
- Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
- (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
- a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group
- a female person who has the same parents as another person
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- (computing theory) A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- Any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices.
- (chemistry) A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution.
- An object made from a tree trunk and having multiple hooks or storage platforms.
- (cartomancy) The fifth Lenormand card.
- A device used to hold or stretch a shoe open.
- (uncountable, mathematics) Alternative letter-case form of TREE.
- Any other plant (such as a large shrub or herb) that is reminiscent of the above in form and size.
- (archaic outside Christianity) A cross or gallows.
- A perennial woody plant taller and larger than a shrub with a wooden trunk and, at some distance from the ground, having leaves and branches.
- The structural frame of a saddle.
- (graphical user interface) A display or listing of entries or elements such that there are primary and secondary entries shown, usually linked by drawn lines or by indenting to the right.
- (graph theory) A connected graph with no cycles or, if the graph is finite, equivalently a connected graph with n vertices and n−1 edges.
- The structure or wooden frame used in the construction of a saddle used in horse riding.
- (often in the plural, slang) Marijuana.
- a figure that branches from a single root
- a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
verb
- (transitive) To place in a tree.
- (transitive) To chase (an animal or person) up a tree.
- (intransitive) To take refuge in a tree.
- (transitive) To place upon a shoe tree; to fit with a shoe tree; to stretch upon a shoe tree.
- plant with trees
- chase an animal up a tree
- force a person or an animal into a position from which they cannot escape
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
noun
- (computing, computing theory) A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node may also contain a subnode.
- (genealogy) A diagrammatic representation of a pedigree, illustrating the connections between a person's ancestors, offspring and other relatives.
- (linguistics) A model or diagram showing the relationships and evolution of specified languages over time.
- (horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.
- (collective) The totality of someone's ancestors and offspring.
- successive generations of kin
noun
- (computing) A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
- A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
- (colloquial) A dilapidated place or vehicle.
- (computing) Memory that is dynamically allocated.
- A great number or large quantity of things.
- (colloquial) A lot, a large amount
- a car that is old and unreliable
- a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
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- (computing theory, telecommunications) A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
- An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
- latticework used to support climbing plants
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noun
- (computing theory) A leaf in a finger tree data structure.
- (aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: former units of measure notionally based on its width but variously standardized, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (fashion) A part of a glove intended to cover a finger.
- (originally US) An informal measure of alcohol based on its height in a given glass compared to the width of the pourer's fingers while holding it.
- Something similar in function or agency to the human finger, (usually) with regard to touching, grasping, or pointing.
- (US, rare slang) A criminal who scouts for prospective victims and targets or who performs reconnaissance before a crime.
- (botany) Various protruding plant structures, as a banana from its hand.
- (historical) The teeth parallel to the blade of a scythe, fitted to a wooden frame called a crade.
- Something similar in shape to the human finger, particularly:
- The projections of a reaper or mower which similarly separate the stalks for cutting.
- One of the slender bony structures before the pectoral fins of gurnards and sea robins (Triglidae).
- (especially in the phrase 'give someone the finger') An obscene or insulting gesture made by raising one's middle finger towards someone with the palm of one's hand facing inwards.
- One of the supporting structures of wings in birds, bats, etc. evolved from earlier toes or fingers.
- (cooking) Finger-shaped pieces of food.
- (figurative) That which points; an indicator, as of guilt, blame, or suspicion.
- (historical) A unit of length notionally based on the length of an adult human's middle finger, standardized as 4½ inches (11.43 cm).
- (nautical) Clipping of finger pier (“a shorter, narrower pier projecting from a larger dock”).
- (UK slang) A person.
- (vulgar) An act of fingering (inserting a finger into someone's vagina or rectum for sexual pleasure).
- (chemistry) A tube extending from a sealed system, or sometimes into one in the case of a cold finger.
- (radio) Any of the individual receivers used in a rake receiver to decode signal components.
- Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking extremities in other animals, particularly:
- (informal, rare) Someone skilled in the use of their fingers, (especially) a pickpocket.
- (historical) Synonym of digit: ¹⁄₁₂ the observed diameter of the sun or moon, (especially) with regard to eclipses.
- (anatomy) A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb.
- (US, rare slang) An informer to the police, (especially) one who identifies a criminal during a lineup.
- The lower, smaller segment of an arthropod claw.
- any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb)
- one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
- the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
verb
- (transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.
- (transitive) To identify or point out; to blame for something.
- (transitive, Internet) To query (a user's status) using the Finger protocol.
- (transitive, music) To provide instructions in written music as to which fingers are to be used to produce particular notes or passages.
- (transitive) To poke, probe, feel, or fondle with a finger or fingers.
- (transitive) To report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on.
- (transitive, music) To use specified finger positions in producing notes on a musical instrument.
- indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
- search for on the computer
- feel or handle with the fingers
- examine by touch
noun
- (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
- (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
- The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction.
- (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
- (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
- (aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.
- (mathematical analysis) A zero (of an equation).
- (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
- (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, "the root of" is often abbreviated to "root").
- The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
- (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- (engineering) The bottom of the thread of a threaded object.
- (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure; the person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.
- The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
- An act of rummaging or searching.
- (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
- A root vegetable.
- (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- (linguistics) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
- The lowest place, position, or part.
- a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
- (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
- the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
verb
- To fix firmly; to establish.
- (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
- To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
- (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of. (See root for.)
- (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
- (intransitive) To rummage; to search as if by digging in soil.
- (computing slang, transitive) To get root or privileged access on (a computer system or mobile phone), often through bypassing some security mechanism.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To sexually penetrate.
- (intransitive) Of a baby: to turn the head and open the mouth in search of food.
- (ambitransitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
- (equestrianism, of a horse) To tug or pull at the reins aggressively by driving the head downwards while wearing a bit.
- To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
- cheer for
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- come into existence, originate
- cause to take roots
- take root and begin to grow
- plant by the roots
- dig with the snout
noun
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (syntax) A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (biology) A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (electronics) A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
- a connecting point at which several lines come together
- (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
- the source of lymph and lymphocytes
- (physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system
- (astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane
- any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
- any thickened enlargement
noun
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
verb
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- fall or sink heavily
noun
- (computing) The object from which a child or derived object is descended; a node superior to another node.
- A parent company.
- A third person who has provided DNA samples in an IVF procedure in order to alter faulty genetic material.
- (physics) The nuclide that decays into a daughter nuclide.
- The source or origin of something.
- (often in the plural) A person who has had a baby; this person in relation to their child or children.
- A surrogate parent.
- (biology) An organism from which a plant or animal is immediately biologically descended.
- (often in the plural) A person who raises a child (which they have made, adopted, fostered, taken as their own, etc.).
- (attributive) Sponsor, supporter, owner, protector.
- a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
- an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained
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- (graph theory) A node in a directed graph whose edges all go out from it; one with no entering edges.
- A reporter's informant.
- Spring; fountainhead; wellhead; any collection of water on or under the surface of the ground in which a stream originates.
- (mathematics, category theory) The domain of a function; the object which a morphism points from.
- The person, place, or thing from which something (information, goods, etc.) comes or is acquired.
- (electronics) The name of one terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- (computing) Source code.
- a facility where something is available
- the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- a document (or organization) from which information is obtained
- anything that provides inspiration for later work
- (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
- a person who supplies information
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noun
- (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
- A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
- A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
- (programming, x86) A particular value of the EAX register when a program runs the CPUID instruction; each leaf represents a different category of information returned about the processor.
- (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
- (publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
- Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
- One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
- The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
- (slang, uncountable) Cannabis.
- (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
- One of the individual flat or curved strips of metal, typically made of spring steel, that make up a leaf spring.
- (4chan slang, Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
- The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.
- (in the plural) Tea leaves.
- the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- a sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- hinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
verb
- (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
- (informal, transitive, uncommon) To play a prank on someone by throwing a large clump or collection of leaves at them.
- (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.
- look through a book or other written material
- produce leaves, of plants
- turn over pages
noun
- (mathematics, programming) A subordinate node of a tree.
- A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
- Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”).
- (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
- (figurative) An adult or adolescent with childish or stupid behaviors.
- Anything derived from or caused by something.
- (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
- (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A youth aged 1 to 9 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 10 to 20 years.
- (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
- a young person of either sex
- a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age
- an immature childish person
- a member of a clan or tribe
noun
- (computing) The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
- (mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with those properties of a geometrical object (of arbitrary dimensionality) that are unchanged by continuous deformations (such as stretching, bending, etc., without tearing or gluing).
- (technology) The properties of a particular technological embodiment that are not affected by differences in the physical layout or form of its application.
- (topography) The topographical study of geographic locations or given places in relation to their history.
- (medicine) The anatomical structure of part of the body.
- (topology) Any collection τ of subsets of a given set X that contains both the empty set and X, and which is closed under finitary intersections and arbitrary unions.
- topographic study of a given place (especially the history of the place as indicated by its topography)
- the configuration of a communication network
- the study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region
- the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions
noun
- (graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
- (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
- (video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
- an accelerator in which two beams of particles are forced to collide head on
noun
- (computing) Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- A material made of fibers; especially, a woven one.
- (figurative) The framework underlying a structure.
- (archaeology) The fired clay material of pottery artifacts.
- (petrology) The appearance of crystalline grains in a rock.
- The texture of a cloth.
- The physical material of a building.
- artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- the underlying structure
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noun
- (computing theory) A partial description gleaned from data mining.
- (countable) A small, compact chunk or clump.
- (Australia, slang, countable) An item that is typically old and of dubious quality or poor condition.
- (countable) A small piece of tasty food, a tidbit.
- (uncountable) A type of boot polish.
- (countable, slang) An inexperienced, newly trained fighter pilot.
- (countable) A bud from the Cannabis sativa plant, especially one that is potent.
- (countable) A tidbit of something valuable.
- (slang, countable) A person with no arms or legs; a basket case.
- (countable) A chicken nugget.
- a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth
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noun
- (graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (topology) A topological space which represents some graph (ordered pair of sets) and which is constructed by representing the vertices as points and the edges as copies of the real interval [0,1] (where, for any given edge, 0 and 1 are identified with the points representing the two vertices) and equipping the result with a particular topology called the graph topology.
- (mathematics) A set of points constituting a graphical representation of a real function; (formally) a set of tuples (x_1,x_2,…,x_m,y)∈ R ᵐ⁺¹, where y=f(x_1,x_2,…,x_m) for a given function f: R ᵐ→ R . See also Graph of a function on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- (category theory, of a morphism f) A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals the identity of the domain, and the second projection applied to Γ_f is equal to f.
- (applied mathematics, statistics) A data chart (graphical representation of data) intended to illustrate the relationship between a set (or sets) of numbers (quantities, measurements or indicative numbers) and a reference set, whose elements are indexed to those of the former set(s) and may or may not be numbers.
- (linguistics, typography) A graphical unit on the token-level, the abstracted fundamental shape of a character or letter as distinct from its ductus (realization in a particular typeface or handwriting on the instance-level) and as distinct by a grapheme on the type-level by not fundamentally distinguishing meaning.
- a visual display of information
- a written symbol that is used to represent speech
- a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities, represented as points, plotted with reference to a set of axes
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- (computing) One of several alternative computational paradigms for a given theory.
- (literature) An approach to interpretation and/or evaluation focused on the (usually linguistic) structure of a literary work rather than on the contexts of its origin or reception.
- (philosophy of mathematics) The ontological view of mathematics as a mere collection of string manipulation rules.
- (music) The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
- (mathematics, physics) A particular mathematical or scientific theory or description of a given state or effect.
- Strict adherence to a given form of conduct, practice etc.
- (linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.
- the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms
- (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications
- the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented
noun
- (mathematics) A leaf vertex of a tree data structure.
- (mathematics) A point in a convex set which does not lie in any open line segment joining two points in the set.
- (mathematics) The maximum or minimum of a function.
- A point that is physically located farthest in the direction of the edge of something.
- A standpoint that goes farthest in some dimension or on some criterion.
- the point located farthest from the middle of something
noun
- (computing theory) An entity that resembles, but is not in fact, a state in a state machine or similar.
- (politics) A geopolitical entity which has some of the trappings of an independently-governed country or territory, but which lacks real independence and is not recognized as a self-governing political entity by the international community of nations.
noun
- (graph theory) An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.
- (geometry) The geometric centroid of the system obtained by placing a mass equal to the magnitude of the exterior angle at each vertex of the system.
- (geometry) Any of the 20 points located at the 3 by 3 intersections of the 60 Pascal lines which are produced by extending the triplets on opposite sides of a conic section in Pascal's theorem for all permutations of verices.
- (geometry) The point on the circumcircle of a triangle that lies at the intersection of three lines through the vertices of the triangle, where those lines are parallel to the corresponding sides of the first Brocard triangle.
- (electronics) One vertex of a Steiner tree.
noun
- (graph theory, of a tree) Given a tree of n nodes, either (1) a unique node whose removal would split the tree into subtrees of fewer than n/2 nodes, or (2) either of a pair of adjacent nodes such that removal of the edge connecting them would split the tree into two subtrees of exactly n/2 nodes.
- (mathematical analysis, of a function) An analogue of the centre of gravity of a nonuniform body in which local density is replaced by a specified function (which can take negative values) and the place of the body's shape is taken by the function's domain.
- (statistics, cluster analysis, of a cluster of points) the arithmetic mean (alternatively, median) position of a cluster of points in a coordinate system based on some application-dependent measure of distance.
- (of a finite set of points) the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of a given finite set of points.
- (geometry, specifically, of a triangle) The point of intersection of the three medians of a given triangle; the point whose (Cartesian) coordinates are the arithmetic mean of the coordinates of the three vertices.
- (geometry, physics, engineering, of an object or a geometrical figure) The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly dense body; the centre of gravity or centre of mass.
- the center of mass of an object of uniform density
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