the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
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Linear perspective
the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer
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(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.outward or visible aspect of a person or thing
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of yielding nothing of value
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.a useful or valuable quality
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of yielding nothing of value
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being believable or trustworthy
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being brachycephalic
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being brachycephalic
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Environmental science, Analysis and evaluation, Pollution, Critical thinking, Water and aquatic environments.the quality of being believable or trustworthy
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A respecter; a viewer with partiality.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are call…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.A resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptote…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.a viewer who looks around casually without seeking anything in particular
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space betwee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.The distance by which one object clears another, as the distance between the piston and cylinder head at the end of a stroke in a stea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.A straight line so situated with respect to a conic section that the distance of any point of the curve from it has a constant ratio t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: appearance, things, relative, determined, distance.
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