Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- infatuation
- an object of extravagant short-lived passion
- gemmule
- the physically discrete element that Darwin proposed as responsible for heredity
- field trial
- a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used
- defensive attitude
- an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')
- discovery
- a productive insight
- Grimm's law
- a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages
- incapacity
- lack of intellectual power
- Salafi movement
- a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world
- decision making
- the cognitive process of reaching a decision
- outwardness
- concern with outward things or material objects as opposed to the mind and spirit
- maths
- a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
- astrophysics
- the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies
- Apgar score
- an assessment of the physical condition of a newborn infant; involves heart rate and muscle tone and respiratory effort and color and reflex responsiveness
- multiple correlation coefficient
- an estimate of the combined influence of two or more variables on the observed (dependent) variable
- logical fallacy
- a fallacy in logical argumentation
- emulation
- (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another
- foretaste
- an early limited awareness of something yet to occur
- flavour
- (physics) the six kinds of quarks
- determinant
- a determining or causal element or factor
- theory of preformation
- a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
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