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(context, mathematics, economics) A branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations in which individuals or organisations choose various actions in an attempt to maximize their returns.
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- The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
- Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production; formation; as, the of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc
- That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspring.
- A period of around thirty years, the average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents.
- A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy, or collectively the body of people who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one time.
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This is the book of the generations of Adam - Genesis 5:1
Ye shall remain there in Babylon many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations - Baruch 6:3
All generations and ages of the Christian church - Hooker
- Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Thy mother's of my ; what's she, if I be a dog? - Shakespeare, Timon of Athens, I-iii
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(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.
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(biology) "The aggregate of the functions and phenomena which attend reproduction.
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noun Latin plural: generatrices<br>
English plural: Generatrixes
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(Geometry): That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent
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| geodesic |
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(mathematics) the shortest line between two points on a specific surface
adjective
- of or relating to geodesy
- of or relating to a geodesic dome
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noun- the scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
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adjective
- of, or relating to geodesy; geodesic
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| geometric |
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adjective
- Of, or relating to geometry
- Increasing or decreasing in a geometric progression
- Using simple shapes such as circles, triangles and lines in a decorative object
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| geometric mean |
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noungeometic mean
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(mathematics) The measure of central tendency of a set of n values computed by extracting the nth root of the product of the values.
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The geometric mean of 2, 4 and 1 is <math>\sqrt3{2 \times 4 \times 1}</math> = 2
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(analysis) A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by multiplying it by a constant value, known as the common ratio of the arithmetic progression.
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(analysis) The sum of the terms of a geometric progression.
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(mathematics) (uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships.
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(mathematics) (countable) A type of geometry with particular properties.
spherical geometry
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(countable) The spatial attributes of an object, etc.
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- A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.
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(past participle of, give)
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- The pointer on a sundial.
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(geometry) A plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram.
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| go |
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- A turn at something.
You"ve been on it long enough"now let your brother have a .
- A turn in a game.
I"ll give it a .
- An approval to do something or a something that has been approved to do.
We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a .
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nounPoetic and philosophical usages
- A position of precise balance between good and evil. Eloquently expressed by Horace (Odes II - 10):
:: Auream quisquis mediocritatem diligit, tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda, sobrius aula. (He who chooses the golden mean safely avoids both the hovel and the palace).
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- the number <math>10^{10^{100}}</math>, ten to the power of a googol
verb (googolplexes, googolplexing, googolplexed)
- to increase by an extremely large number
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noun
- A rating.
I gave him a good for effort.
- A degree or level of something; a position within a scale; a degree of quality.
This fine- coin from 1837 is worth a good amount.
- A slope (up or down) of a roadway or other passage
''The of this hill is more than 5 percent
- A level of pre-collegiate education
Clancy is entering the fifth this year.
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An area that has been graded by a grader (construction machine)
- The level of the ground.
This material absorbs moisture and is probably not a good choice for use below .
- To score an academic test.
- To assign a score to overall academic performance.
- To flatten and even out or smooth a large surface.
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(mathematics) A diagram displaying data, in particular one showing the relationship between two or more variables; specifically, for a function <math>f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n)</math>, the set of all tuples <math>(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n, f(x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n))</math>.
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(graphtheory) An ordered pair <math>(V,E)</math>, where <math>V</math> is a set of elements called vertex, vertices (or nodes) and <math>E</math> is a set of pairs of elements of <math>V</math>, called edges; informally, a set of vertices together with a set edges that join these vertices.
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- a drawing or picture
- (in the plural) computer generated images as viewed on a screen forming part of a game or a film etc.
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I've just played this new computer game, the graphics are amazing.
adjective
- drawn, pictorial
- vivid, descriptive
- grotesque or otherwise repulsive gory
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(mathematics) The study of the properties of graphs (in the sense of sets of vertices and sets of ordered or unordered pairs of vertices).
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| great circle |
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- A circle defined as the intersection of the surface of a sphere and a plane which passes through the centre of the sphere.
- The shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.
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noun (abbreviated as gcd)
- The of a set is the largest positive integer that divides each of the numbers in the set without remainder.
- The greatest common divisor of 66, 30 and 18 is 6.
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- A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
There is a of houses behind the hill.
A of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
He left town to join a Communist
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(grouptheory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
- A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz ?
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(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxy, galaxies that are near each other.
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(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
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(chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
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(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
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(military) An air force formation.
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(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
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(computing) In the Unix operating system, a number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
verb
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(transitive) To put together to form a group.
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(math) The mathematical theory of groups.
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