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31Descriptive linguistics — is the work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the …
32Descriptive botanical names — are names that are governed by Article 16 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), which rules that a name above the rank of family may be either descriptive or formed from the name of an included family. The latter leads to… …
33Descriptive knowledge — Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the species of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from… …
34Descriptive psychiatry — is based on the study of observable symptoms and behavioral phenomena rather than underlying psychodynamic processes. In descriptive psychiatry, the clinical psychiatrist focuses on empirically observable behaviors and conditions, such as words… …
35Descriptive complexity — is a branch of finite model theory, a subfield of computational complexity theory and mathematical logic, which seeks to characterize complexity classes by the type of logic needed to express the languages in them. For example, PH, the union of… …
36descriptive mark — de·scrip·tive mark n: a trademark or service mark that conveys the idea of the qualities, characteristics, or effects of a product or service and that is protectable when it creates an association in the mind of the public between the mark and… …
37descriptive document — England, Wales A document that sets out the background to a procurement project. The descriptive document should contain as much relevant information for tenderers as possible. Descriptive documents are most commonly used in procurements run… …
38Descriptive Account of the Panoramic View &c. of King George's Sound and the Adjacent Country — Descriptive account of the panoramic view, c. of King George s Sound, and the adjacent country is a pamphlet written by Robert Dale in 1834, containing description and commentary on the Panoramic View of King George s Sound, Part of the Colony of …
39descriptive word index — An alphabetically arranged aid used in legal research used to locate cases that have discussed a particular topic. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. descriptive word index …
40descriptive account — index narration Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
