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  2. ISO/IEC 80000 - Wikipedia

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    ISO 80000-8:2020 revised ISO 80000-8:2007, [37] which revised ISO 31-7:1992. [38] It gives names, symbols, definitions, and units for quantities of acoustics. The descriptive text of this part is available online. [39] It has a foreword, scope introduction, scope, normative references (of which there are none), as well as terms, and definitions.

  3. International System of Quantities - Wikipedia

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    Within the ISQ it is differently defined for a root-power quantity (also known by the deprecated term field quantity) and for a power quantity. It is not defined for ratios of quantities of other kinds. Within the ISQ, all levels are treated as derived quantities of dimension 1.

  4. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    It differs critically from Chomsky's idea of Universal Grammar but rather purports that people learn how to speak by interacting with experienced language users, namely a 'more knowledgable other' such as a parent, older sibling or caretaker ([3]) [vague] Significantly, language and culture are woven together in this construct, functioning hand ...

  5. Outline of culture - Wikipedia

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    Film – moving pictures. Painting – the practice of applying paint, pigment, colour or another medium to a surface with a brush or other object. History of painting; Photography – art, science, and practice of creating pictures by recording radiation on a radiation-sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or electronic image sensors.

  6. Symbolic anthropology - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of symbolic and interpretive anthropology can be described through a term used often by Geertz that originated from Gilbert Ryle, "Thick Description."By this what is conveyed, is that since culture and behavior can only be studied as a unit, studying culture and its smaller sections of the structure, thick description is what details the interpretation of those belonging to a ...

  7. Ideogram - Wikipedia

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    An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek idéa 'idea' + gráphō 'to write') is a symbol that represents an idea or concept independent of any particular language. Some ideograms are more arbitrary than others: some are only meaningful assuming preexisting familiarity with some convention; others more directly resemble their signifieds .

  8. Intercultural communication - Wikipedia

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    Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.It describes the wide range of communication processes and problems that naturally appear within an organization or social context made up of individuals from different religious, social, ethnic, and educational backgrounds.

  9. Languaculture - Wikipedia

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    According to Agar, culture is a construction, a translation between source languaculture and target languaculture. Like a translation, it makes no sense to talk about the culture of X without saying the culture of X for Y, taking into account the standpoint from which it is observed. For this reason, culture is relational.