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  2. Adequacy.org - Wikipedia

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    The Adequacy authors began as trolls on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, other technology-oriented discussion sites.They devised and posted many comments designed to provoke outraged responses; common styles included slighting a revered operating system or open source leader, or posting messages with simple but deliberate technical errors, which would incite hundreds of corrections.

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  4. Necessity and sufficiency - Wikipedia

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    If P is sufficient for Q, then knowing P to be true is adequate grounds to conclude that Q is true; however, knowing P to be false does not meet a minimal need to conclude that Q is false. The logical relation is, as before, expressed as "if P, then Q" or "P ⇒ Q". This can also be expressed as "P only if Q", "P implies Q" or several other ...

  5. Levels of adequacy - Wikipedia

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    Observational adequacy. The theory achieves an exhaustive and discrete enumeration of the data points. There is a pigeonhole for each observation. Descriptive adequacy. The theory formally specifies rules accounting for all observed arrangements of the data. The rules produce all and only the well-formed constructs (relations) of the protocol ...

  6. Lagom - Wikipedia

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    While some synonyms are somewhat similar in meaning (e.g. ' suitable ' and ' reasonable ', ' fitting ' and ' in balance '), many present in Swedish do not exist in Norwegian and vice versa. The Norwegian words passelig and the more common passe are very similar, translating roughly as ' fitting, adequate, suitable ' in English.

  7. Accuracy and precision - Wikipedia

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    Accuracy is also used as a statistical measure of how well a binary classification test correctly identifies or excludes a condition. That is, the accuracy is the proportion of correct predictions (both true positives and true negatives) among the total number of cases examined. [10]

  8. Consideration - Wikipedia

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    Consideration need not be adequate. Consideration need not necessarily be equal in value to something given. So long as consideration exists, the courts are not concerned as to adequacy, provided it is for some value. Additionally, under the Indian Contract Act 1872, any consideration is invalid if it is: Forbidden by law [a]

  9. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    In some types of writing, repeated use of said is considered tedious, and writers are encouraged to employ synonyms. On Wikipedia, it is more important to avoid language that makes undue implications. Said, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate.