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  2. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Other synonyms for effectiveness include: clout, capability, success, weight, performance. [13] Antonyms for effectiveness include: uselessness, ineffectiveness. [13] Simply stated, effective means achieving an effect, and efficient means getting a task or job done it with little waste.

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    In some types of writing, repeated use of said is considered tedious, and writers are encouraged to employ synonyms. On Wikipedia, it is more important to avoid language that makes undue implications. Said, stated, described, wrote, commented, and according to are almost always neutral and accurate.

  4. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Blasphemy is a crime against God, rather than against the State. dictum (thing) said A statement given some weight or consideration due to the respect given the person making it. doli incapax: incapable of guilt Presumption that young children or persons with diminished mental capacity cannot form the intent to commit a crime. dolus bonus ...

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...

  6. State (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In information technology and computer science, a system is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; [1] the remembered information is called the state of the system. The set of states a system can occupy is known as its state space. In a discrete system, the state space is countable and often ...

  7. Medical state - Wikipedia

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    Medical state is a term used to describe a hospital patient's health status, or condition. The term is most commonly used in information given to the news media , and is rarely used as a clinical description by physicians .

  8. Antiphrasis - Wikipedia

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    Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1]Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes.

  9. List of Latin phrases (I) - Wikipedia

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    he himself said it: Commonly said in Medieval debates and referring to Aristotle. Used in general to emphasize that some assertion comes from some authority, i.e., as an argument from authority, and the term ipse-dixitism has come to mean any unsupported rhetorical assertion that lacks a logical argument.