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  • 1such — W1S1 [sʌtʃ] determiner, predeterminer, pron [: Old English; Origin: swilc] 1.) of the same kind as the thing or person which has already been mentioned ▪ Such behavior is just not acceptable in this school. ▪ The rules make it quite clear what… …

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  • 2such — 1 /sVtS/ predeterminer, determiner 1 used to talk about a person, thing etc which is of the same kind as that which has already been mentioned: Such behavior is just not acceptable in this school. | The rules make it quite clear what should be… …

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  • 3Situation awareness — Situation awareness, or SA, is the perception of environmental elements within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future. It is also a field of study concerned with… …

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  • 4such — [ sʌtʃ ] function word *** Such can be used in the following ways: as a predeterminer (followed by a or an and a singular noun): She s such an intelligent woman. It was such a shame that you couldn t be with us. as a determiner (followed by a… …

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  • 5situation comedy —    Situation comedies, or sitcoms, focus on a comic situation which is returned to by a small cast of actors in successive episodes. Much of the humour in these shows derives from character, and ‘straight’ actors appear in them more frequently… …

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  • 6Situation theory — provides the mathematical foundations to Situation Semantics, and was developed by writers such as Jon Barwise and Keith Devlin in the eighties. Due to certain foundational problems the mathematics was framed in a non well founded set theory. One …

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  • 7such...as — formal phrase used for emphasizing that something is not enough for a particular purpose Such experience as I have is useless in this situation. Such changes as they made were minor and did not go far enough. Thesaurus: not enoughsynonym …

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  • 8Situation comedy — A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring… …

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  • 9Situation calculus — The situation calculus is a logic formalism designed for representing and reasoning about dynamical domains. It was first introduced by John McCarthy in 1963. The main version of the situational calculus that is presented in this article is based …

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  • 10Situation — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Situation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 situation situation position locality locale status latitude and longitude Sgm: N 1 footing footing standing standpoint post Sgm: N 1 stage …

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