a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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Determining factor
a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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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, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.(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, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.One who, or that which, determines or decides.
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.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, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.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…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent ele…
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(education) a program of education in liberal arts and sciences (usually in preparation for higher education)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; accidental or causal; additional; supervenient; foreign.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Confirmative; ratifying; as, an act affirmative of common law.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.To support or sustain; to hold up.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.The steps that explain how a cause leads to an effect.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Effective, as a cause or agent; causing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.(mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
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