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  • 41Number of Identified Specimens — The Number of Identified Specimens or Number of Individual Specimens[1] (NISP), is used in archaeology and paleontology when counting bones from a site. NISP counts each bone and fragment as one unit. The NISP is an estimate of the number of… …

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  • 42Counting measure — In mathematics, the counting measure is an intuitive way to put a measure on any set: the size of a subset is taken to be the number of elements in the subset, if the subset is finite, and ∞ if the subset is infinite.[1] Formally, start with a… …

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  • 43Number one modern rock hits of 1994 — The following is a comprehensive list of hits that reached number one on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, published by Billboard magazine. In 1994, there were 18 hits that reached peak position, in 53 issues of the magazine. Morrissey had the… …

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  • 44Number names — In linguistics, a number name, or numeral, is a symbol or group of symbols, or a word in a natural language that represents a number. Numerals differ from numbers just as words differ from the things they refer to. The symbols 11 , eleven and XI… …

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  • 45Number one modern rock hits of 1996 — These are the Billboard magazine Modern Rock Tracks number one hits of 1996. Issue date Song Artist Reference(s) January 6 Wonderwall Oasis [1] January 13 [2] January 20 …

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  • 46counting — The procedure of uniquely associating one number with each element of a set in order to arrive at a measure of the set. Along with measurement, counting is the procedure whereby mathematics is applied. Hence its objectivity is a principal datum… …

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  • 47counting-out rhymes —    Used by children (and sometimes adults sotto voce) to make a random choice between options but particularly to choose who will be it in a game. The children stand in a circle or line, and one child points to each in turn in the rhythm of the… …

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  • 48counting measure — noun A positive measure which, for each subset of a given measure space, assigns a value equal to the number of points in that subset …

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  • 49counting plate — in bacteriology, a plate marked off in square centimeters. A Petri dish culture of microorganisms is placed on the plate and colonies per square centimeter are counted. The number of colonies per plate is calculated by multiplying the average… …

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  • 50counting of votes — totaling up the number of votes, tallying of votes (i.e. in an election) …

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