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  2. Glossary of computer science - Wikipedia

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    Also simply application or app. Computer software designed to perform a group of coordinated functions, tasks, or activities for the benefit of the user. Common examples of applications include word processors, spreadsheets, accounting applications, web browsers, media players, aeronautical flight simulators, console games, and photo editors. This contrasts with system software, which is ...

  3. Dependent and independent variables - Wikipedia

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    A variable is considered dependent if it depends on an independent variable. Dependent variables are studied under the supposition or demand that they depend, by some law or rule (e.g., by a mathematical function), on the values of other variables. Independent variables, in turn, are not seen as depending on any other variable in the scope of ...

  4. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    The same term can also be used more informally to refer to something "standard" or "classic". For example, one might say that Euclid's proof is the "canonical proof" of the infinitude of primes. There are two canonical proofs that are always used to show non-mathematicians what a mathematical proof is like:

  5. Look-ahead (backtracking) - Wikipedia

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    In other words, for any unassigned variables, the values that cannot consistently be extended to another variable are removed. The difference between forward checking and arc consistency is that the former only checks a single unassigned variable at a time for consistency, while the second also checks pairs of unassigned variables for mutual ...

  6. Terminology - Wikipedia

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    Terminology differs from lexicography, as it involves the study of concepts, conceptual systems and their labels (terms), whereas lexicography studies words and their meanings. Terminology is a discipline that systematically studies the "labelling or designating of concepts" particular to one or more subject fields or domains of human activity ...

  7. Glossary of electrical and electronics engineering - Wikipedia

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    One type of metal rectifier, though selenium is considered a "metalloid" – formerly much used but now replaced by silicon semiconductors. semiconductor A substance with electrical conductivity between that of insulators and conductors; displays a negative temperature coefficient of resistance, and is also sensitive to light.

  8. Glossary of experimental design - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes called dependent variable(s). Response surface: A designed experiment that models the quantitative response, especially for the short-term goal of improving a process and the longer-term goal of finding optimum factor-values. Traditionally, response-surfaces have been modeled with quadratic-polynomials, whose estimation requires that ...

  9. Independent and identically distributed random variables

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    In other words, the terms random sample and IID are synonymous. In statistics, " random sample " is the typical terminology, but in probability, it is more common to say " IID ." Identically distributed means that there are no overall trends — the distribution does not fluctuate and all items in the sample are taken from the same probability ...