descriptive use
1Descriptive statistics — quantitatively describe the main features of a collection of data.[1] Descriptive statistics are distinguished from inferential statistics (or inductive statistics), in that descriptive statistics aim to summarize a data set, rather than use the… …
2Descriptive notation — is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the most popular notation in English speaking and Spanish speaking countries (Brace 1977:79–80), (Sunnucks 1970:325). It was used in Europe until it was superseded by abbreviated… …
3Descriptive knowledge — Descriptive knowledge, also declarative knowledge or propositional knowledge, is the species of knowledge that is, by its very nature, expressed in declarative sentences or indicative propositions. This distinguishes descriptive knowledge from… …
4Descriptive chess notation — Descriptive chess notation, or just descriptive notation is a notation for recording chess games, and at one time was the most popular notation in Britain and America for doing so. It has been superseded by abbreviated algebraic notation, as the… …
5Descriptive linguistics — is the work of analyzing and describing how language is spoken (or how it was spoken in the past) by a group of people in a speech community. All scholarly research in linguistics is descriptive; like all other sciences, its aim is to observe the …
6Descriptive botanical names — are names that are governed by Article 16 of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN), which rules that a name above the rank of family may be either descriptive or formed from the name of an included family. The latter leads to… …
7Descriptive Account of the Panoramic View &c. of King George's Sound and the Adjacent Country — Descriptive account of the panoramic view, c. of King George s Sound, and the adjacent country is a pamphlet written by Robert Dale in 1834, containing description and commentary on the Panoramic View of King George s Sound, Part of the Colony of …
8Descriptive psychology — Psychology …
9Descriptive interpretation — See also: Interpretation (logic) According to Rudolf Carnap, in logic, an interpretation is a descriptive interpretation (also called a factual interpretation) if at least one of the undefined symbols of its formal system becomes, in the… …
10Descriptive Billing — A type of credit card billing that includes the date, merchant s name, contact, telephone number etc. of each transaction. Descriptive billing replaced country club billing, which existed in the 1970s, where the actual credit card slips were… …
