a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
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a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.an algorithm that implements classification.; "Classifier performance depends greatly on the characteristics of the data to be classif…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computing) a search procedure using techniques modelled on the biological theory of natural selection.; "Also, in searching a large s…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a list of options available to a computer user
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.a method for solving problems in linear programming that tests adjacent vertices of the feasible set in sequence so that at each new v…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Computing and technology, Computer science, Bioinformatics.(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.(computer science) a register that has a built-in adder that adds an input number to the contents of the register
Used in the same subject area: Computing and technology, Computer science.(computer science) a first test of an experimental product (such as computer software) carried out by the developer
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a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.Alt. of Algorithm
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.error resulting from the choice of the wrong algorithm or method for achieving the intended result
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.(computer science) a list of options available to a computer user
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected form…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.A process of sorting ore by washing in a hand sieve.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an inten…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.To enter in a list, or on a piece of parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.An account, catalogue, or schedule, made by an executor or administrator, of all the goods and chattels, and sometimes of the real est…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: algorithm, sorting, list.The process of repeating a procedure or algorithm
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