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  • 111descriptive adjective — noun an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., a nervous person or a musical speaking voice ) • Syn: ↑qualifying adjective • Hypernyms: ↑adjective …

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  • 112descriptive anthropology — noun the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies • Syn: ↑ethnography • Derivationally related forms: ↑ethnographical (for: ↑ethnography), ↑ethnographer (for: ↑ …

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  • 113descriptive clause — noun a subordinate clause that does not limit or restrict the meaning of the noun phrase it modifies • Syn: ↑nonrestrictive clause • Hypernyms: ↑subordinate clause, ↑dependent clause …

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  • 114descriptive anatomy — noun : anatomy dealing with the character, form, size, and position of organs and parts …

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  • 115descriptive bibliography — noun : a bibliographical record in complete detail of the physical characteristics and publishing history of the books of a related series properly including an account of internal printing variants requisite for textual criticism * * * Library… …

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  • 116descriptive botany — noun : a branch of botany dealing with the systematic description or diagnostic characters of plants …

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  • 117descriptive cataloging — noun : a library procedure by which a book or other item is identified and described by recording such items as author, title, imprint, and collation contrasted with subject cataloging * * * Library Science. the aspect of cataloging concerned… …

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  • 118descriptive clause. — See nonrestrictive clause …

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  • 119Self-descriptive number — A self descriptive number is an integer m that in a given base b is b digits long in which each digit d at position n (the most significant digit being at position 0 and the least significant at position b 1) counts how many instances of digit n… …

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  • 120Théorie descriptive des ensembles — La théorie descriptive des ensembles est une branche des mathématiques s intéressant aux ensembles « définissables ». Son principal but est de classifier ces ensembles par complexité. Elle a de nombreux liens avec la théorie des… …

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