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Cutoff

a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Limitation 76% connected

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Road 76% connected

A journey, or stage of a journey.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Route 76% connected

The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to be passed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crosscut 92% connected

To cut across or through; to intersect.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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At times adverb · 78% connection

sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of…

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Believably adverb · 78% connection

easy to believe on the basis of available evidence; "he talked plausibly before the committee"; "he will probably win the election"

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Broadly speaking adverb · 78% connection

without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly"

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By and large adverb · 78% connection

usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here"

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Caveat noun · 78% connection

(law) a formal notice filed with a court or officer to suspend a proceeding until filer is given a hearing; "a caveat filed against th…

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Close to adverb · 78% connection

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…

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From time to time adverb · 78% connection

sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of…

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In all likelihood adverb · 78% connection

with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

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In all probability adverb · 78% connection

with considerable certainty; without much doubt; "He is probably out of the country"; "in all likelihood we are headed for war"

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In part adverb · 78% connection

to some extent; in some degree; not wholly; "I felt partly to blame"; "He was partially paralyzed"

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Just about adverb · 78% connection

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…

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More often than not adverb · 78% connection

usually; as a rule; "by and large it doesn't rain much here"

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More or less adverb · 78% connection

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years…

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Now and again adverb · 78% connection

sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of…

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Now and then adverb · 78% connection

sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of…

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Obviously adverb · 78% connection

unmistakably (‘plain’ is often used informally for ‘plainly’); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great…

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On occasion adverb · 78% connection

sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of…

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On the face of it adverb · 78% connection

from appearances alone; "irrigation often produces bumper crops from apparently desert land"; "the child is seemingly healthy but the…

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Boundary noun · 78% connection

That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imagina…

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Cast iron noun · 78% connection

an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting

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Covariant noun · 78% connection

A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same…

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Croissante adjective · 78% connection

Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated.

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Derivative noun · 78% connection

A derived function; a function obtained from a given function by a certain algebraic process.

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Essential amino acid noun · 78% connection

an amino acid that is required by animals but that they cannot synthesize; must be supplied in the diet

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Exceed verb · 78% connection

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sens…

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Function noun · 78% connection

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must…

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Image noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined; "the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all…

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Integration noun · 78% connection

The operation of finding the primitive function which has a given function for its differential coefficient. See Integral.

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Inverse function noun · 78% connection

a function obtained by expressing the dependent variable of one function as the independent variable of another; f and g are inverse f…

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Limitive adjective · 78% connection

Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.

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