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noun
- the act of identifying, or proving to be the same.
- Much education and experience is required for proper of bird species
- the state of being identified
- a particular instance of identifying something
- information necessary to make a good )
- a document or documents serving as evidence of a person's identity
- The authorities asked for his
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| imitation |
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noun
- The act of imitate, imitating.
- A copy.
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| individualism |
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noun
- The tendency for a person to act without reference to others, particularly in matters of style, fashion or mode of thought.
- A belief system that places great importance on the ability of people to act as individuals.
- The basic moral premise that only individuals can act, benefit and suffer. The opposite of collectivism, which holds that abstract groups or transcendent entities can act, benefit or suffer, necessitating an abstract structure (such as the state) to support these groups or entities.
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| individuality |
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noun (individualit, ies)
- the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity
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verb (industrializ, ing)
- (context, of a country) to develop industry; to become industrial
- (context, of a product) to manufacture on an industrial scale or using industrial methods
- (context, of a process) to organize along industrial lines
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| in-group |
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adjective
- of, or relating to, or forming an ingroup or clique
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| institution |
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noun
- An established organisation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, culture or the care of the destitute, poor etc.
- The building which houses such an organisation.
- A custom or practice of a society or community - marriage for example.
- (Informal) - A person long established with a certain place or position.
- The act of instituting.
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verb (institutionaliz, ing)
- to establish as a normal practice
- to commit a person to confinement in an institution
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| integrate |
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verb (integrates, integrating, integrated)
- To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
- To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.
- (mathematics) To subject to the operation of integration; to find the integral of.
- To desegregate, as a school or neighborhood.
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| integrated |
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verb
- (present participle of, integrate)
adjective
- composed and coordinated to form a whole
- characterized by racial integration
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| integration |
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noun
- The act or process of making whole or entire.
- (calculus) The operation of finding the integral of a function.
- In evolution, the process by which the manifold is compacted into the relatively simple and permanent; supposed to alternate with differentiation as an agent in development.
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| introspection |
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noun
- A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
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| invention |
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noun
- Something invented.
- My new invention will let you alphabetize your matchbook collection in half the usual time.
- I'm afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper's invention.
- The capacity to invent.
- It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.
- (music) A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach"s Two- and Three-part Inventions.
- I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.
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| isolation |
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noun
- The act of isolating.
- The state of being isolated, detached, or separated.
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