Questions tagged [terminology]
For questions about technical or specialized words in fields like grammar, sailing, computers, marketing, research, etc.
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The categories of indefinite pronouns
I know everything.
They know all of their pen pals./ They know all the fathers of the
family here.
I think "everything" is an indefinite pronoun, and "all" is also an indefinite pronoun, so what ...
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The output of an adapter
I'm trying to name a function in a software package. Let's start with some backgrounds. The package provides supplemental functions to multiple upstream packages that train random forests. To avoid ...
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Literary device for sound ending similar to the next word's beginning
What literary device is it if a word begins with the sound the previous word ends in?
such as 'doubt' and 'truth' in: Doubt truth to be a liar.
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From inward to outward vs from outward to inward (a word)
Something may be "from inward to outward" or "from outward to inward". I want examples of English words (for general mathematical or philosophical terms, not for special things like cooking eggs) ...
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Meaning of “plug fill” or “fill plug” in pharmaceutical industry
From an FDA guideline:
Bracketing can be applied to studies with multiple strengths of identical or closely related formulations. Examples include but are not limited to (1) capsules of different ...
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what does “deposit facility” mean?
I'm translating an article about finance. Can you help me explain what "deposit facility" means in this context?
In December, the euro zone central bank decreased the rate on its deposit facility ...
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Is there a word that means “join bodies”?
I am not sure if there's a word for it, but it would make a lot of sense if there was, sometimes in the "acrobatic arts" people do this, so there might be a specific terminology for it, I suspect ...
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Suitable term for “has the highest-rating”/“most-popular” (media outlet)?
If you want to say:
He works for a radio station that is the most popular in his country
Popular here does not necessarily mean "well-liked", but rather that it has the highest listenership ...
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Straight or linear helix
If a helix is discontinued for a short while and then continues in a different direction, I prefer to call in "kinked". If the helix is simply uniformly following one direction, I prefer to call it "...
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“resource exhaustive” vs. “exhaustive resource”
Method A exhaust a lot of resources. How can I say this in comparison sentence:
method A has been viewed as a resource exhaustive compared to method B
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method A has been viewed as an ...
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on using “to denote” to define a term
I want to define few terms but not sure how to use denote. For example:
We use the term XYZ to denote websites consisting of ...
Is the above correct statement?
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“A determinative factor”, “A determinant” and “A decisive factor”
To me, and based on dictionary definitions a "determinative factor", a "determinant" and a "decisive factor", imply a truely "crucial factor" which can lead you to make a decision about something.
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Phoneme vs graphene vs IPA
I want to clarify my doubt on the difference between a phoneme and a grapheme.
A phoneme is a sound unit while a grapheme is a written format of that sound unit. To the best of my knowledge, a ...
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what's the meaning of the word stereographic?
does anyone know what is the meaning of the word stereographic? like stereographic projection? I want to translate it into another language and I want it to be accurate. it's like drawing something ...
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What is mean “cover grammar”
I met this phrase when I read the specification of a computer language. And I would like to know what this phrase means.
For example:
The input stream is syntactically in error if the tokens in ...
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How to name these two cases of passive voice?
How to name these two cases of passive voice:
This document started being written by me on 2017.07.22.
and
This document was started (being) written by me on 2017.07.22.
?
Both are the ...
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How to differentiate between “to do” and “do” terminologically?
I would like to know what is term for a verb when is with "to" (for example "We need "to do" it.) and a verb that is without "to" (for example: "We do it everyday"). Now I read the article infinitive ...
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The meaning of “yell” in gambling
From movie Kingpin:
(At a casino table, a customer to the dealer) You are going to give me $100,000 on the line and a $50,000 yell, okay?
Does on the line mean the money wagered? Then what does ...
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Question about “Royal Court”
Someone asked me whether the term "royal court" could also mean the king's dukes, viscounts, barons, counts, earls, etc. I know it contains his retinue, i.e. his advisors, servants, ministers, but ...
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Member Countries & Member States
Today I want to ask if the two terms "member country" and "member state", in an international organisation, are the same and thus can be swapped for each other when we want to avoid repetition while ...
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PhD, Ph.D. and Ph.D
According to the Collins dictionary:
PhD in British
abbreviation for
Doctor of Philosophy
Well in American
PhD in American or Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
But sometimes I also ...
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What is the appropriate word for these? -> one day, one month, one year and so on
I want to know the most appropriate word for these.
one day
two days
three days
one month
two months
three months
one year
two years
three years
The context where these appears is that they are ...
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Word to describe dependency relations
I want to expresss below 2 concepts in simple terms, especially the bold parts:
A and all the things A depends on.
A and all the things that depend on A.
Is there any special term or single word can ...
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Meaning of “cross” in “While the cross has corrected slightly this week, we expect the uptrend to continue and recommend a buy-on-dips strategy”
From an article titled "Euro to US Dollar Exchange Rate Will Go Higher, Analysts Say, Buy On Dips":
“While the cross has corrected slightly this week, we expect the uptrend to continue and ...
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What do you call shortcuts in written English?
Writers make shortcuts in their writing and typography such as this sentence:
He watched my daughter being killed.
Some writers or most of them extract the word being out of sentence as a style ...
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The meaning of “inframarginal” in the context
I would be grateful if anyone could help me with the meaning the word "inframarginal" in the following sentence:
A WDR could launch and help focus the debate. It
could also initiate a parallel ...
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Comparing two things in one sentence
We have three shapes in my study. We called them trees. The class of Tree 1 is larger than the class of tree 2 and tree 3. Also, the shape of tree 1 contains the shapes of both tree 2 and tree 3. I ...
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meaning of the phrase “draft and drift”
I came across this in the news, and the meaning is unclear to me:
"Back in 1909, a layer of bricks was laid on top of the rock and tar surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speed Way. It has been ...
