| experimental medicine | The scientific investigation of medical problems by experimentation upon animals or by clinical research. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| experimental method | In experimental psychology, control of environmental, physiological, or attitudinal factors to observe dependent changes in aspects of experience and behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| experimental neurosis | A behaviour disorder produced experimentally, as when an organism is required to make a discrimination of extreme difficulty and "breaks down" in the process. (05 Mar 2000) |
| experimental psychology | A subdiscipline within the science of psychology that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking, also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental, in contrast to correlational or socio-experiential, methods are emphasized. (05 Mar 2000) |
| experimenter effects | The influence of the experimenter's behaviour, personality traits, or expectancies on the results of that person's own research. See: double blind study. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expert system | Expert systems are computer programs designed to simulate the problem-solving behaviour of human experts within very narrow domains or scientific disciplines (entomology, plant pathology, etc.). This discipline is a sub-set of Artificial Intelligence. See: artificial intelligence. Synonym: knowledge-based systems (13 Jan 1998) |
| expert systems | Computer programs based on knowledge developed from consultation with experts on a problem, and the processing and/or formalizing of this knowledge using these programs in such a manner that the problems may be solved. (12 Dec 1998) |
| expert testimony | Presentation of pertinent medical data by a qualified medical specialist before a court. (12 Dec 1998) |
| expiate | 1. To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin. "To expiate his treason, hath naught left." (Milton) "The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury." (Clarendon) 2. To purify with sacred rites. "Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire." (Deut. Xviii. 10 (Douay version)) Origin: L. Expiatus, p.p. Of expiare to expiate; ex out + piare to seek to appease, to purify with sacred rites, fr. Pius pious. See Pious. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiation | 1. The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty. "His liberality seemed to have something in it of self-abasement and expiation." (W. Irving) 2. The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement. "Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats." (Milton) 3. An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen. Origin: L. Expiatio: cf.F. Expiation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiration | <physiology> The act of breathing out or expelling air from the lungs. Origin: L. Spirare = to breathe (18 Nov 1997) |
| expiratory | <physiology> Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| expiratory centre | The region of the medulla oblongata that is electrically active during expiration and where electrical stimulation produces sustained expiration. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expiratory dyspnea | Difficulty with the expiratory phase of breathing, often due to obstruction in the larynx or large bronchi, such as by a foreign body. (05 Mar 2000) |
| expiratory reserve volume | The extra volume of air that can be expired with maximum effort beyond the level reached at the end of a normal, quiet expiration. Common abbreviation is erv. (12 Dec 1998) |
| exploration |
to travel for the purpose of discovery a careful systematic search a systematic consideration; "he called for a careful exploration of the consequences"
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| explorer |
someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose) Internet Explorer: a commercial browser
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| exponent |
advocate: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea someone who expounds and interprets or explains a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself
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| expose |
expose or make accessible to some action or influence; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine" unwrap: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" uncover: remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" disclose: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" queer: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position expose to light, of photographic film debunk: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned" the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government"
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the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope a discussion that provides additional information adding information or detail
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| exp | a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes |
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| exp | a bolt that has an attachment that expands as the bolt is driven into a surface |
| exp | (computers) a socket in a microcomputer that will accept a plug-in circuit board |
| exp | the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country |
| exp | of or involving or guided by expansionism |
| exp | friendly and open and willing to talk |
| exp | (psychiatry) marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur |
| exp | able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion |
| exp | impressive in scale |
| exp | a bit with a cutting blade that can be adjusted to different sizes |
| exp | in an ebullient manner |
| exp | in an impressively expansive manner |