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  2. Non-adjacent - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Non-adjacent

  3. Lexical chain - Wikipedia

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    A lexical chain is a sequence of related words in writing, spanning narrow (adjacent words or sentences) or wide context window (entire text). A lexical chain is independent of the grammatical structure of the text and in effect it is a list of words that captures a portion of the cohesive structure of the text.

  4. Non-adjacent form - Wikipedia

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    Obviously, at most half of the digits are non-zero, which was the reason it was introduced by G.W. Reitweisner [2] for speeding up early multiplication algorithms, much like Booth encoding. Because every non-zero digit has to be adjacent to two 0s, the NAF representation can be implemented such that it only takes a maximum of m + 1 bits for a ...

  5. Metathesis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The Old English beorht "bright" underwent metathesis to bryht, which became Modern English bright. The Old English þrēo "three" formed þridda "thrid" and þrēotene "thriteen". These underwent metathesis to forms which became Modern English third and thirteen. The Old English verb wyrċan "to work" had the passive participle ġeworht "worked".

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  7. Transposed letter effect - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, the transposed letter effect is a test of how a word is processed when two letters within the word are switched.. The phenomenon takes place when two letters in a word (typically called a base word) switch positions to create a new string of letters that form a new, non-word (typically called a transposed letter non-word or TL non-word).

  8. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  9. Glossary of graph theory - Wikipedia

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    Synonym for non-edge, a pair of non-adjacent vertices. anti-triangle A three-vertex independent set, the complement of a triangle. apex 1. An apex graph is a graph in which one vertex can be removed, leaving a planar subgraph. The removed vertex is called the apex. A k-apex graph is a graph that can be made planar by the removal of k vertices. 2.