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Directory

Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.

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Blue book 76% connected

A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.

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List 76% connected

A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a…

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Listing 76% connected

of List

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Reference 76% connected

The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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Algorithm noun · 86% connection

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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Algorithmic program noun · 86% connection

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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Algorithmic rule noun · 86% connection

a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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Classifier noun · 86% connection

an algorithm that implements classification.; "Classifier performance depends greatly on the characteristics of the data to be classif…

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Computer database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Electronic database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Electronic information service noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Genetic algorithm noun · 86% connection

(computing) a search procedure using techniques modelled on the biological theory of natural selection.; "Also, in searching a large s…

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Menu noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a list of options available to a computer user

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On-line database noun · 86% connection

(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers

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Simplex algorithm noun · 86% connection

a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…

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Simplex method noun · 86% connection

a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…

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Sorting algorithm noun · 86% connection

an algorithm for sorting a list

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Stemmer noun · 86% connection

an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

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Stemming algorithm noun · 86% connection

an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem

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Access time noun · 78% connection

(computer science) the interval between the time data is requested by the system and the time the data is provided by the drive; "acce…

Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science.
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Accumulator register noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register

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Alpha test noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a first test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by the developer

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About preposition · 78% connection

Over or upon different parts of; through or over in various directions; here and there in; to and fro in; throughout.

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Acceptor RNA noun · 78% connection

RNA molecules present in the cell (in at least 20 varieties, each variety capable of combining with a specific amino acid) that attach…

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Aeolotropic adjective · 78% connection

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

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Aeolotropy noun · 78% connection

Difference of quality or property in different directions.

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Analysis situs noun · 78% connection

the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transf…

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Anisotropic adjective · 78% connection

Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, bu…

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Anticlinal adjective · 78% connection

Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal.

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Antiscii n. pl. · 78% connection

The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

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Biacuminate adjective · 78% connection

Having points in two directions.

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Blockhouse noun · 78% connection

An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…

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Boustrophedon noun · 78% connection

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowe…

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Brancher noun · 78% connection

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

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Catechetics noun · 78% connection

The science or practice of instructing by questions and answers.

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