possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his power…
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the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that wo…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wa…
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.(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, Education, Learning.(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, Education, Learning.the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc; "send two dollars or the equivalent in…
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Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"
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Used in the same subject area: Cognitive psychology, Neurology, Medicine and healthcare, Psychology, Education, Learning.a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways; "he had the attitude that wo…
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Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Aggluti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to hi…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.(linguistics) the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning.; "While l…
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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.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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Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.(linguistics) a type of grammar that describes syntax in terms of a set of logical rules that can generate all and only the infinite n…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: words, language, forms, meaning, grammatical.According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
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