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  2. Repeatability - Wikipedia

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    A measurement may be said to be repeatable when this variation is smaller than a predetermined acceptance criterion. Test–retest variability is practically used, for example, in medical monitoring of conditions. In these situations, there is often a predetermined "critical difference", and for differences in monitored values that are smaller ...

  3. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    A familiar example to American English speakers would be the allegedly optional "-al-", probably most commonly seen in "publically" vs. "publicly"—both spellings are considered correct/acceptable in American English, and both pronounced the same, in this dialect, rendering the "publically" spelling pleonastic in US English; in other dialects ...

  4. Reproducibility - Wikipedia

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    Reproducibility, closely related to replicability and repeatability, is a major principle underpinning the scientific method.For the findings of a study to be reproducible means that results obtained by an experiment or an observational study or in a statistical analysis of a data set should be achieved again with a high degree of reliability when the study is replicated.

  5. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.

  6. Reduplication - Wikipedia

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    she chunt comes üse our Chrischtboum Christmas tree cho come schmücke. adorn Si chunt üse Chrischtboum cho schmücke. she comes our {Christmas tree} come adorn She comes to adorn our Christmas tree. Si she lat lets ne him nid not la let schlafe. sleep Si lat ne nid la schlafe. she lets him not let sleep She doesn't let him sleep. In some Salishan languages, reduplication can mark both ...

  7. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The word was deliberately coined to be the longest word in English, [6] and has since been used [citation needed] in a close approximation of its originally intended meaning, lending at least some degree of validity to its claim. The Oxford English Dictionary contains pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters).

  8. Ditto mark - Wikipedia

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    The word ditto comes from the Tuscan language, [7] where it is the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of "said", as in the locution "the said story". The first recorded use of ditto with this meaning in English occurs in 1625. [7] In English, the abbreviation "do.", usually italicised, has sometimes been used instead of ...

  9. Idempotence - Wikipedia

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    In the monoid (,) of the natural numbers with multiplication, only and are idempotent. Indeed, = and =. In the monoid (, +) of the natural numbers with addition, only is idempotent.