a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlati…
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Decelerate
lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
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Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.a statistic representing how closely two variables co-vary; it can vary from -1 (perfect negative correlation) through 0 (no correlati…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retar…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change, Quantitative academic language.have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the politi…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemic…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.The act of causing; also the act or agency by which an effect is produced.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction; "he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.(statistics) correlated variation
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Cause, effect and change.The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of mira…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Quantitative academic language.cause to happen, occur or exist; "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemic…
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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of pers…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: lose, velocity, move, slowly, decelerated.
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