a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
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a point or fact or remark that settles something conclusively
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 or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances
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, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, 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: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, 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: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Spelling and grammar, Parts of speech, Cause, effect and change.any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
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.any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
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 cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do; "her wishes had a great influence on his thinking"
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 capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distingu…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several y…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator"
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Academic vocabulary, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology.some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several y…
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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.expecting the best; "an affirmative outlook"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.Prospect; outlook.
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.an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important compone…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.A causal word or form of speech.
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.Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
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
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: determining, causal, element, factor, education.
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