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  2. Inversion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    is arrivato arrived Giovanni. Giovanni è arrivato Giovanni. is arrived Giovanni 'Giovanni arrived' In English, on the other hand, subject-verb inversion generally takes the form of a Locative inversion. A familiar example of subject-verb inversion from English is the presentational there construction. There's a shark. English (especially written English) also has an inversion construction ...

  3. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    humanitarian – The Compact Oxford Dictionary from 1996 has a usage note criticizing use of humanitarian as in humanitarian disaster, saying "the adjective humanitarian is often used inaccurately by reporters, e.g This is the worst humanitarian disaster within living memory, as if humanitarian meant 'of or relating to humanity ' ", [74] though ...

  4. Inverted index - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, an inverted index (also referred to as a postings list, postings file, or inverted file) is a database index storing a mapping from content, such as words or numbers, to its locations in a table, or in a document or a set of documents (named in contrast to a forward index, which maps from documents to content). [1]

  5. Dutch angle - Wikipedia

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    Person passed out on sidewalk – New York City, 2008 – shot using Dutch angle. In filmmaking and photography, the Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, vortex plane, or oblique angle, is a type of camera shot that involves setting the camera at an angle so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the ...

  6. Differential calculus - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, differential calculus is a subfield of calculus that studies the rates at which quantities change. [1] It is one of the two traditional divisions of calculus, the other being integral calculus—the study of the area beneath a curve.

  7. Muted group theory - Wikipedia

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    Muted Group Theory (MGT) is a communication theory developed by cultural anthropologist Edwin Ardener and feminist scholar Shirley Ardener in 1975, that exposes the sociolinguistic power imbalances that can suppress social groups' voices.

  8. Reverse dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A reverse dictionary is a dictionary alphabetized by the reversal of each entry: kcots (stock) kcotseid (diestock) kcotser (restock) kcotsevil (livestock)

  9. Taenia saginata - Wikipedia

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    Taenia saginata (synonym Taeniarhynchus saginatus), commonly known as the beef tapeworm, is a zoonotic tapeworm belonging to the order Cyclophyllidea and genus Taenia.It is an intestinal parasite in humans causing taeniasis (a type of helminthiasis) and cysticercosis in cattle.