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41descriptive geometry — n. the system of geometry that uses plane projections and perspective drawings of solid figures, usually in order to describe and analyze their properties for engineering and manufacturing purposes …
42descriptive linguistics — n. the branch of linguistics which describes the structure of a language or languages as they exist, without reference to their histories or to comparison with other languages …
43Descriptive psychology — Psychology …
44Descriptive poetry — For general context, see Poetry. Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that may be defined as belonging mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times, all poetry not subjectively lyrical… …
45Descriptive set theory — In mathematical logic, descriptive set theory is the study of certain classes of well behaved subsets of the real line and other Polish spaces. As well as being one of the primary areas of research in set theory, it has applications to other… …
46Descriptive marker — A descriptive marker is a grammatic feature of certain languages. It is defined linguistically as a free morpheme that indicates the grammatical function marking description. Contents 1 Function 2 Usage 3 Descriptive markers in Toytonic …
47Descriptive science — The term descriptive science is used to identify a category of science and distinguish it from other categories of science. The exact demarcation line can vary a bit depending on the purpose of making the distinction, but essentially it refers to …
48Descriptive interpretation — See also: Interpretation (logic) According to Rudolf Carnap, in logic, an interpretation is a descriptive interpretation (also called a factual interpretation) if at least one of the undefined symbols of its formal system becomes, in the… …
49Descriptive complexity theory — For other uses, see Kolmogorov complexity. Descriptive complexity is a branch of computational complexity theory and of finite model theory that characterizes complexity classes by the type of logic needed to express the languages in them. For… …
50Descriptive Catalogue (1809) — The title page of the Descriptive Catalogue The Descriptive Catalogue of 1809 is a description of, and prospectus for, an exhibition by William Blake of a number of his own illustrations for various topics, but most notably including a set of… …
