Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- analysis
- a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation
- radiochemistry
- the chemistry of radioactive substances
- cut
- the style in which a garment is cut
- reminiscence
- a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
- haj
- the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Hijja; at least once in a lifetime a Muslim is expected to make a religious journey to Mecca and the Kaaba
- conditioned stimulus
- the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response
- ology
- an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
- superior skill
- more than ordinary ability
- stemmer
- an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem
- detection
- the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
- Bravais lattice
- a 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystal
- psychometrika
- any branch of psychology concerned with psychological measurements
- uncertainty principle
- (quantum theory) the theory that it is impossible to measure both energy and time (or position and momentum) completely accurately at the same time
- age norm
- the average age at which particular performances are expected to appear
- contradistinction
- a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast
- unbelief
- a rejection of belief
- cosmology
- the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe
- metallurgy
- the science and technology of metals
- religious trance
- a trance induced by intense religious devotion; does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances
- geology
- a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks
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