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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nut \Nut\, n. [OE. nute, note, AS. hnutu; akin to D. noot, G. nuss, OHG. nuz, Icel. hnot, Sw. n[94]t, Dan. n[94]d.] 1. (Bot.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel. 2. A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst {Bolt}. 3. The tumbler of a gunlock. --Knight. 4. (Naut.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place. {Check nut}, {Jam nut}, {Lock nut}, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut. {Nut buoy}. See under {Buoy}. {Nut coal}, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger than pea coal; -- called also {chestnut coal}. {Nut crab} (Zo[94]l.), any leucosoid crab of the genus {Ebalia} as, {Ebalia tuberosa} of Europe. {Nut grass} (Bot.), a plant of the Sedge family ({Cyperus rotundus}, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. {Nut lock}, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. | |
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Ebulliate \E*bul"li*ate\, v. i. To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] --Prynne. | |
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Ebullition \Eb`ul*li"tion\, n. [F. [82]bullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See {Ebullient}.] 1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. 2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an a[89]riform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written {bullition}.] 3. A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper. | |
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Efflate \Ef*flate"\, v. t. [L. efflatus, p. p. of efflare to blow or breathe out; ex + flare to blow.] To fill with breath; to puff up. --Sir T. Herbert. | |
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Efflation \Ef*fla"tion\, n. The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind. A soft efflation of celestial fire. --Parnell. | |
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Epalate \E*pal"ate\, a. [Pref. e- + palpus.] (Zo[94]l.) Without palpi. | |
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Epaulet \Ep"au*let`\, Epaulette \Ep"au*lette`\, n. [F. [82]paulette, dim. of [82]paule shoulder, fr. L. spatula a broad piece (LL., shoulder), dim. of spatha abroad, flat instrument, fr. Gr. [?], also, a broad rib, shoulder blade. See {Spade} the instrument, and cf. {Epaule}, {Spatula}.] (Mil.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot. Note: In the United States service the epaulet is reserved for full dress uniform. Its use was abolished in the British army in 1855. | |
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Epauleted \Ep"au*let`ed\, Epauletted \Ep"au*let`ted\, a. Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets. | |
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Epaulet \Ep"au*let`\, Epaulette \Ep"au*lette`\, n. [F. [82]paulette, dim. of [82]paule shoulder, fr. L. spatula a broad piece (LL., shoulder), dim. of spatha abroad, flat instrument, fr. Gr. [?], also, a broad rib, shoulder blade. See {Spade} the instrument, and cf. {Epaule}, {Spatula}.] (Mil.) A shoulder ornament or badge worn by military and naval officers, differences of rank being marked by some peculiar form or device, as a star, eagle, etc.; a shoulder knot. Note: In the United States service the epaulet is reserved for full dress uniform. Its use was abolished in the British army in 1855. | |
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Epauleted \Ep"au*let`ed\, Epauletted \Ep"au*let`ted\, a. Wearing epaulets; decorated with epaulets. | |
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Kelp \Kelp\, n. [Formerly kilpe; of unknown origin.] 1. The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine. 2. (Bot.) Any large blackish seaweed. Note: {Laminaria} is the common kelp of Great Britain; {Macrocystis pyrifera} and {Nereocystis Lutkeana} are the great kelps of the Pacific Ocean. {Kelp crab} (Zo[94]l.), a California spider crab ({Epialtus productus}), found among seaweeds, which it resembles in color. {Kelp salmon} (Zo[94]l.), a serranoid food fish ({Serranus clathratus}) of California. See {Cabrilla}. | |
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Epulation \Ep`u*la"tion\, n. [L. epulatio.] A feasting or feast; banquet. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Epulotic \Ep`u*lot"ic\, a. [Gr. [?], fr. [?] to scar over or heal; 'epi` upon, over + [?] whole.] Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment. -- n. An epulotic agent. | |
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Evaluate \E*val"u*ate\, v. t. [See {Evaluation}.] To fix the value of; to rate; to appraise. | |
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Evaluation \E*val`u*a"tion\, n. [Cf. F. [82]valuation, LL. evaluatio.] Valuation; appraisement. --J. S. Mill. | |
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Evil-eyed \E"vil-eyed\a. Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious. --Shak. | |
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Evolatic \Ev`o*lat"ic\, Evolatical \Ev`o*lat"ic*al\, a. [L. evolare to fly away; e out + volare to fly.] Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] --Blount. | |
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Evolatic \Ev`o*lat"ic\, Evolatical \Ev`o*lat"ic*al\, a. [L. evolare to fly away; e out + volare to fly.] Apt to fly away. [Obs. or R.] --Blount. | |
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Evolation \Ev`o*la"tion\, n. [L. evolatio.] A flying out or up. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall. | |
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Evolute \Ev"o*lute\, n. [L. evolutus unrolled, p. p. of evolvere. See {Evolve}.] (Geom.) A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See {Involute}. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent. Note: Any curve may be an evolute, the term being applied to it only in its relation to the involute. | |
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Evolutility \Ev`o*lu*til"i*ty\, n. [See {Evolution}.] (Biol.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. --Syd. Soc. Lex. | |
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Evolution \Ev`o*lu"tion\, n. [L. evolutio an unrolling: cf. F. [82]volution evolution. See {Evolve}.] 1. The act of unfolding or unrolling; hence, in the process of growth; development; as, the evolution of a flower from a bud, or an animal from the egg. 2. A series of things unrolled or unfolded. [bd]The whole evolution of ages.[b8] --Dr. H. More. 3. (Geom.) The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute. --Hutton. 4. (Arith. & Alg.) The extraction of roots; -- the reverse of involution. 5. (Mil. & Naval) A prescribed movement of a body of troops, or a vessel or fleet; any movement designed to effect a new arrangement or disposition; a maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. --Campbell. 6. (Biol.) (a) A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters which distinguish it; a gradual unfolding of successive phases of growth or development. (b) That theory of generation which supposes the germ to pre[89]xist in the parent, and its parts to be developed, but not actually formed, by the procreative act; -- opposed to epigenesis. 7. (Metaph.) That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and every product of human activity. The agencies and laws of the process are variously explained by different philosophrs. Evolution is to me series with development. --Gladstone. | |
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Evolutional \Ev`o*lu"tion*al\, a. Relating to evolution. [bd]Evolutional changes.[b8] --H. Spenser. | |
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Evolutionary \Ev`o*lu"tion*a*ry\, a. Relating to evolution; as, evolutionary discussions. | |
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Evolutionism \Ev`o*lu"tion*ism\, n. The theory of, or belief in, evolution. See {Evolution}, 6 and 7. | |
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Evolutionist \Ev`o*lu"tion*ist\, n. 1. One skilled in evolutions. 2. one who holds the doctrine of evolution, either in biology or in metaphysics. --Darwin. | |
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Eyebolt \Eye"bolt`\, n. (Mach.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head. | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
EVALUATE statement}. (1997-06-10) | |
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evaluation some {reduction strategy}. 2. The process of examining a system or system component to determine the extent to which specified properties are present. (1996-05-13) | |
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evaluation strategy {reduction strategy} | |
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evaluator when applied to an expression, reduce it to varying degrees. E0 does no evaluation, E1 it evaluates to {weak head normal form} (WHNF), E2 evaluates the structure of a list, i.e. it evaluates it either to NIL or evaluates it to a CONS and then applies E2 to the second argument of the CONS. E3 evaluates the structure of a list and evaluates each element of the list to {WHNF}. This concept can be extended to data structures other than lists and forms the basis of the {evaluation transformer} style of {strictness analysis}. (1994-12-12) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
evolution strategy (ES) A kind of {evolutionary algorithm} where individuals (potential solutions) are encoded by a set of real-valued "object variables" (the individual's "genome"). For each object variable an individual also has a "strategy variable" which determines the degree of mutation to be applied to the corresponding object variable. The strategy variables also mutate, allowing the rate of mutation of the object variables to vary. An ES is characterised by the population size, the number of offspring produced in each generation and whether the new population is selected from parents and offspring or only from the offspring. ES were invented in 1963 by Ingo Rechenberg, Hans-Paul Schwefel at the {Technical University of Berlin} (TUB) while searching for the optimal shapes of bodies in a flow. (1995-02-03) | |
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evolutionary algorithm (EA) An {algorithm} which incorporates aspects of natural selection or survival of the fittest. An evolutionary algorithm maintains a population of structures (usually randomly generated initially), that evolves according to rules of selection, recombination, mutation and survival, referred to as genetic operators. A shared "environment" determines the fitness or performance of each individual in the population. The fittest individuals are more likely to be selected for reproduction (retention or duplication), while recombination and mutation modify those individuals, yielding potentially superior ones. EAs are one kind of {evolutionary computation} and differ from {genetic algorithm}s. A GA generates each individual from some encoded form known as a "chromosome" and it is these which are combined or mutated to breed new individuals. EAs are useful for optimisation when other techniques such as {gradient descent} or direct, analytical discovery are not possible. Combinatoric and real-valued function optimisation in which the optimisation surface or fitness landscape is "rugged", possessing many {locally optimal} solutions, are well suited for evolutionary algorithms. (1995-02-03) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
evolutionary computation Computer-based problem solving systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including {evolutionary algorithm}s, {genetic algorithm}s, the {evolution strategy}, {evolutionary programming}, and {artificial life}. {The Hitchhiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/bngusenet/comp/ai/genetic/top.html)}. {Bibliography (http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/EC-ref.html)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.ai.genetic}. (1995-03-02) | |
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evolutionary programming (EP) A {stochastic} optimisation strategy originally conceived by Lawrence J. Fogel in 1960. An initially random population of individuals (trial solutions) is created. Mutations are then applied to each individual to create new individuals. Mutations vary in the severity of their effect on the behaviour of the individual. The new individuals are then compared in a "tournament" to select which should survive to form the new population. EP is similar to a {genetic algorithm}, but models only the behavioural linkage between parents and their offspring, rather than seeking to emulate specific genetic operators from nature such as the encoding of behaviour in a genome and recombination by genetic crossover. EP is also similar to an {evolution strategy} (ES) although the two approaches developed independently. In EP, selection is by comparison with a randomly chosen set of other individuals whereas ES typically uses {deterministic} selection in which the worst individuals are purged from the population. (1995-02-03) |