| 单词 | abstract entity |
| 释义 | abstract entity (once / 393978 pages) n WORD FAMILY abstract entity: abstract entities USAGE EXAMPLESIt employs real-life objects—crayons, string, and chalk, among other common items—to convey abstract entities like data and memory. Slate(Aug 27, 2014) The burden of the corporate income tax does not fall on abstract entities called “Burger King” or Walgreens. Forbes(Aug 26, 2014) It takes agency away from those people and hands it to an inanimate and highly abstract entity. Slate(Jun 03, 2014) n a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples Syn|Hypo|Hyper abstraction psychological feature a feature of the mental life of a living organism attributean abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity group, groupingany number of entities (members) considered as a unit relationan abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together communicationsomething that is communicated by or to or between people or groups amount, measure, quantityhow much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify otherworldan abstract spiritual world beyond earthly reality set(mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols cognition, knowledge, noesisthe psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning motivation, motive, needthe psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior statethe way something is with respect to its main attributes form, shapethe spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance timethe continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past infinite, spacethe unlimited expanse in which everything is located eventsomething that happens at a given place and time possessionanything owned or possessed social relationa relation between living organisms (especially between people) publicationthe communication of something to the public; making information generally known human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, worldall of the living human inhabitants of the earth human naturethe shared psychological attributes of humankind that are assumed to be shared by all human beings traita distinguishing feature of your personal nature character(genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes thingany attribute or quality considered as having its own existence common denominatoran attribute that is common to all members of a category personalitythe complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual cheer, cheerfulness, sunniness, sunshinethe quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom uncheerfulnessnot conducive to cheer or good spirits ballastan attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings ethos(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era eidos(anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group qualityan essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone propertya basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class heritage, inheritanceany attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors position, spatial relationthe spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated chance, probabilitya measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible depththe attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense quantum(physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory) intervala set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints group, mathematical groupa set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse messagea communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled contagion, infectionthe communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people language, linguistic communicationa systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols black and white, written communication, written languagecommunication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) content, message, subject matter, substancewhat a communication that is about something is about didacticismcommunication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive sign, signal, signalingany nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message signa public display of a message indicant, indicationsomething that serves to indicate or suggest visual communicationcommunication that relies on vision displayexhibiting openly in public view expressive style, stylea way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period paralanguage, paralinguistic communicationthe use of manner of speaking to communicate particular meanings auditory communicationcommunication that relies on hearing phonation, vocalisation, vocalism, vocalization, voice, voxthe sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract anomalous communication, psychic communication, psychical communicationcommunication by paranormal means voicesomething suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression arrangementan orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging stragglea wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons) kingdoma basic group of natural objects biological groupa group of plants or animals biotic community, community(ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other people(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively social grouppeople sharing some social relation accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collectionseveral things grouped together or considered as a whole editionall of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time electron shella grouping of electrons surrounding the nucleus of an atom ethnic group, ethnospeople of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture racepeople who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock association(ecology) a group of organisms (plants and animals) that live together in a certain geographical region and constitute a community with a few dominant species cloud, swarma group of many things in the air or on the ground domain, domain of a function(mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined image, range, range of a function(mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined universal set(mathematics) the set that contains all the elements or objects involved in the problem under consideration locusthe set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions subgroupa distinct and often subordinate group within a group subseta set whose members are members of another set; a set contained within another set null seta set that is empty; a set with no members Mandelbrot seta set of complex numbers that has a highly convoluted fractal boundary when plotted; the set of all points in the complex plane that are bounded under a certain mathematical iteration mathematical space, topological space(mathematics) any set of points that satisfy a set of postulates of some kind field(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 root, solutionthe set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation sainthoodsaints collectively citizenry, peoplethe body of citizens of a state or country populationa group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashedthe common people generally diagonal(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry varna(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) circuit(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals scheme, systema group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole seriesa group of postage stamps having a common theme or a group of coins or currency selected as a group for study or collection ownershipthe relation of an owner to the thing possessed; possession with the right to transfer possession to others documenta written account of ownership or obligation economic value, valuethe amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else fundamental measure, fundamental quantityone of the four quantities that are the basis of systems of measurement definite quantitya specific measure of amount indefinite quantityan estimated quantity relative quantitya quantity relative to some purpose metric, system of measurementa system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic cordagethe amount of wood in an area as measured in cords octane number, octane ratinga measure of the antiknock properties of gasoline magnetisation, magnetizationthe extent or degree to which something is magnetized radical(mathematics) a quantity expressed as the root of another quantity volumethe amount of 3-dimensional space occupied by an object volumea relative amount proofa measure of alcoholic strength expressed as an integer twice the percentage of alcohol present (by volume) causalitythe relation between causes and effects human relationship, relationshipa relation between people; (`relationship' is often used where `relation' would serve, as in `the relationship between inflation and unemployment', but the preferred usage of `relationship' is for human relations or states of relatedness) functiona relation such that one thing is dependent on another associationa relation resulting from interaction or dependence logical relationa relation between propositions mathematical relationa relation between mathematical expressions (such as equality or inequality) foundationthe basis on which something is grounded connectedness, connection, connexiona relation between things or events (as in the case of one causing the other or sharing features with it) unconnectednessthe lack of a connection between things linguistic relationa relation between linguistic forms or constituents component, component part, constituent, part, portionsomething determined in relation to something that includes it affinity, kinshipa close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character family relationship, kinship, relationship(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption magnitude relation, quantitative relationa relation between magnitudes controla relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another business relationa relation between different business enterprises reciprocality, reciprocitya relation of mutual dependence or action or influence interrelatedness, interrelation, interrelationshipmutual or reciprocal relation or relatedness temporal relationa relation involving time comparisonrelation based on similarities and differences oppositeness, oppositionthe relation between opposed entities changea relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event intersectiona point or set of points common to two or more geometric configurations actinide, actinoid, actinonany of a series of radioactive elements with atomic numbers 89 through 103 lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare earth, rare-earth elementany element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers 57 through 71) halogenany of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions time unit, unit of timea unit for measuring time periods point, point in timean instant of time period of play, play, playing period(in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds interval, time intervala definite length of time marked off by two instants entity that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) |
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