- continuum, with "inherently distinctive"
marks at one end, "generic" and "
descriptive"
marks with no
distinctive character at the
other end, and "suggestive"...
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Descriptive notation is a
chess notation system based on
abbreviated natural language. Its
distinctive features are that it
refers to
files by the piece...
- A
descriptive statistic (in the
count noun sense) is a
summary statistic that
quantitatively describes or
summarizes features from a
collection of information...
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Descriptive geometry is the
branch of
geometry which allows the
representation of three-dimensional
objects in two
dimensions by
using a
specific set...
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Descriptive research is used to
describe characteristics of a po****tion or
phenomenon being studied. It does not
answer questions about how/when/why...
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Descriptive poetry is the name
given to a
class of
literature that
belongs mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries in Europe. From the
earliest times...
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Descriptive ethics, also
known as
comparative ethics, is the
study of people's
beliefs about morality. It
contrasts with
prescriptive or
normative ethics...
- The
descriptive fallacy refers to
reasoning which treats a
speech act as a
logical proposition,
which would be
mistaken when the
meaning of the statement...
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Earlier editions were
called Anatomy:
Descriptive and Surgical,
Anatomy of the
Human Body and Gray's Anatomy:
Descriptive and Applied, but the book's name...
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Descriptive poetics is an
analytic approach within literary studies.
While the
concept of
poetics goes back to Aristotle, the term "
descriptive poetics"...
