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  2. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    The way a character speaks can be a powerful way of revealing the character's personality. In theory, a reader should be able to identify which character is speaking simply from the way they talk. [11] When a character voice has been created that is rich and distinctive, the writer can get away with omitting many speech attributions (tag lines ...

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person."

  4. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  5. Category:Pejorative terms for women - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 18 September 2024, at 19:43 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  6. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    In reference to people engaged in an endeavor together, as in musical performance (other words denote three or more people in the same context: trio, quartet, etc.) Grand: 1,000 Slang for a thousand of some unit of currency, such as dollars or pounds. Gross: 144 Twelve dozen Score: 20

  7. Characterization (materials science) - Wikipedia

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    A huge range of techniques are used to characterize various macroscopic properties of materials, including: Mechanical testing, including tensile, compressive, torsional, creep, fatigue, toughness and hardness testing; Differential thermal analysis (DTA) Dielectric thermal analysis (DEA, DETA) Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)

  8. Person - Wikipedia

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    A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

  9. Characterization (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, a set of properties P is said to characterize X, when these properties distinguish X from all other objects. Even though a characterization identifies an object in a unique way, several characterizations can exist for a single object.