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  2. Compliance - Wikipedia

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    Compliance (medicine), a patient's (or doctor's) adherence to a recommended course of treatment; Compliance (physiology), the tendency of a hollow organ to resist recoil toward its original dimensions (this is a specific usage of the mechanical meaning) Pulmonary compliance (or lung compliance), change in lung volume for applied or dynamic pressure

  3. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3] It is available in different languages, such as English, Spanish and French. The service also contains pronunciation audio, Google Translate, a word origin chart, Ngram Viewer, and word games, among other features for the English-language version.

  4. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  5. Sound correspondences between English accents - Wikipedia

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    The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.

  6. Help:IPA/English - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of English on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of English in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  7. Malicious compliance - Wikipedia

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    Some perceive malicious compliance as a tool for effecting change, such as social change, [7] or meeting goals, such as production quotas, even at the expense of efficiency and the organization. [8] Other motivations include office politics, jealousy, revenge on a supervisor, [3] [9] and simply "sticking it to" an organization one is unhappy ...

  8. A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English - Wikipedia

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    A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, also referred to as Kenyon and Knott, was first published by the G. & C. Merriam Company in 1944, and written by John Samuel Kenyon and Thomas A. Knott. It provides a phonemic transcription of General American pronunciations of words, using symbols largely corresponding to those of the IPA .

  9. Bilingual dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A bilingual dictionary or translation dictionary is a specialized dictionary used to translate words or phrases from one language to another. Bilingual dictionaries can be unidirectional , meaning that they list the meanings of words of one language in another, or can be bidirectional , allowing translation to and from both languages.