the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection…
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(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
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the making of maps and charts
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.bring into common action, movement, or condition; "coordinate the painters, masons, and plumbers"; "coordinate his actions with that o…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.determined by geography; "the north and south geographic poles"
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.information system for geographical information; "This operator was applied to a mobile technology GIS application." - UD_English-GUM…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.determined by geography; "the north and south geographic poles"
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.information system for geographical information; "This operator was applied to a mobile technology GIS application." - UD_English-GUM…
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information"
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.the angular distance between an imaginary line around a heavenly body parallel to its equator and the equator itself
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
Used in the same subject area: Geography, Maps, GIS and spatial data.the making of maps and charts
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a data transmission rate; the maximum amount of information (bits/second) that can be transmitted along a channel
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five qu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.(computer science) a computer file containing machine-readable information that must be read by an application; characters use all 8 b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states; "the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.Keeping certain study information hidden to reduce biased behaviour or judgement.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.(often plural) a means of communication or access; "it must go through official channels"; "lines of communication were set up between…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.(computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.the function of pointing or specifying from the perspective of a participant in an act of speech or writing; aspects of a communicatio…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.a suite of internet protocols, which provide Security transparency, security and network management.; "FLIP is a connectionless protoc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.a suite of internet protocols, which provide Security transparency, security and network management.; "FLIP is a connectionless protoc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.A measure of liquids, containing a hundred liters; equal to a tenth of a cubic meter, nearly 26/ gallons of wine measure, or 22.0097 i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.(quantum theory) the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.mutual communication; communication with each other; "they intercepted intercommunication between enemy ships"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: communication, theory, numerical, measure, uncertainty.
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