a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
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One who, or that which, clinches; that which holds fast.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents; "the process of thinking…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.One who, or that which, determines or decides.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or jud…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.A flowing in or upon; influx.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a w…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
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Offering a choice of two things.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.A prerequisite to a clear understanding of the predicaments and categories, such as definitions of common terms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to class…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.of Bow
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: distributing, things, classes, categories, type.The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common re…
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