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11lie detector test — The popular name for a polygraph, which tests a person s physiological response (for example, changes in blood pressure and respiration) to questions asked by a testing expert to judge whether the person is telling the truth. The test s… …
12lie detector — lie′ detec tor n. cvb an instrument that produces a record of the changes in certain body activities, as blood pressure, pulse, and breathing, which may be interpreted to indicate the truth or falsity of a person s answers under questioning Also… …
13lie|der|kranz — «LEE duhr KRAHNTS», noun. 1. a smooth cheese resembling Camembert in texture but with a stronger flavor and odor. 2. Liederkranz. Trademark. a name for this cheese. 3. Also, Liederkranz. a) a German male singing society. b) a collection of songs …
14Lie to Me — For other uses, see Lie to Me (disambiguation). Lie to Me Genre Drama Crime Police procedural Comedy drama Created by Samuel Baum …
15Lie derivative — In mathematics, the Lie derivative, named after Sophus Lie by Władysław Ślebodziński, evaluates the change of one vector field along the flow of another vector field.The Lie derivative is a derivation on the algebra of tensor fields over a… …
16Lie-Gruppe — Eine Lie Gruppe (auch Liesche Gruppe), benannt nach Sophus Lie, ist eine mathematische Struktur, die zur Beschreibung von kontinuierlichen Symmetrien verwendet wird. Lie Gruppen sind in fast allen Teilen der heutigen Mathematik sowie in der… …
17Lie algebroid — In mathematics, Lie algebroids serve the same role in the theory of Lie groupoids that Lie algebras serve in the theory of Lie groups: reducing global problems to infinitesimal ones. Just as a Lie groupoid can be thought of as a Lie group with… …
18lie — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. prevaricate, falsify, deceive; recline, rest, be situated; extend. See falsehood, deception, location, horizontal. Ant., fact, truth. lie detector II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An intentional… …
19Lie groupoid — In mathematics, a Lie groupoid is a groupoid where the set Ob of objects and the set Mor of morphisms are both manifolds, the source and target operations:s,t : Mor o Ob are submersions, and all the category operations (source and target,… …
20Lie superalgebra — In mathematics, a Lie superalgebra is a generalisation of a Lie algebra to include a Z2 grading. Lie superalgebras are important in theoretical physics where they are used to describe the mathematics of supersymmetry. In most of these theories,… …
