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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

staging factors

assumption (plural assumptions)
  1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
  2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
  3. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.  [quotations ▼]
    • 1976, “The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 10”[1]: 
      No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions.
  4. (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.


to induce (third-person singular simple present induces, present participle inducing, simple past and past participle induced)
  1. (transitive) to lead by persuasion or influence; incite
  2. (transitive) to cause, bring about, lead to
    His meditation induced a compromise.
    Opium induces sleep.



  3. (physics) to cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction



  4. (transitive, logic) to infer by induction.



  5. (transitive, obsolete) to lead in, bring in, introduce



  6. (transitive, obsolete) to draw on, place upon



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option (plural options)
  1. One of the choices which can be made.
  2. The freedom or right to choose.
  3. (finance) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can apply to financial market transactions, or to ordinary transactions for tangible assets such as a residence or automobile.
suggestion (countable and uncountable; plural suggestions)
  1. (countable) Something suggested.
    I have a small suggestion: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.



  2. (uncountable) The act of suggestion.
    Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.



  3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
    He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    timing (countable and uncountable; plural timings)



  4. (obsolete) An occurrence or event.



  5. (uncountable) The regulation of the pace of e.g. an athletic race, the speed of an engine, the delivery of a joke, or the occurrence of a series of events.



  6. (uncountable) The time when something happens.



  7. (uncountable) The synchronization of the firing of the spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.



  8. (countable) An instance of recording the time of something.