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  2. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipped forms can pass into common usage when they are widely useful, becoming part of standard language, which most speakers would agree has happened with math/maths, lab, exam, phone (from telephone), fridge (from refrigerator), and various others.

  3. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    A reference to a standard or choice-free presentation of some mathematical object (e.g., canonical map, canonical form, or canonical ordering). The same term can also be used more informally to refer to something "standard" or "classic". For example, one might say that Euclid's proof is the "canonical proof" of the infinitude of primes.

  4. Cut-up technique - Wikipedia

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    [18] Another industrial music pioneer, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, named Burroughs and his cut-up technique as the most important influence on how he approached the use of samples. [19] Many Elephant 6 bands used decoupe as well, one prominent example of this is seen in "Pree-Sisters Swallowing A Donkey's Eye" by Neutral Milk Hotel.

  5. Clipped compound - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of clipped compound may overlap with that of acronym. [citation needed] In the Russian language, a clipped compound may acquire one or more extra suffixes that indicate the intended grammatical form of the formed word. In particular, the suffix -k is commonly used, for example, in askorbinka (from askorbinovaya kislota (i.e ...

  6. Telegram style - Wikipedia

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    This telegram was sent by Orville Wright in December 1903 from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, following the first successful airplane flight.. Telegram style, telegraph style, telegraphic style, or telegraphese [1] is a clipped way of writing which abbreviates words and packs information into the smallest possible number of words or characters.

  7. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    pdf – probability density function. pf – proof. PGL – projective general linear group. Pin – pin group. pmf – probability mass function. Pn – previous number. Pr – probability of an event. (See Probability theory. Also written as P or.) probit – probit function. PRNG – pseudorandom number generator.

  8. FX’s ‘Clipped’ Is Six Episodes of Rich People Being Terrible ...

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    FX's new drama series, Clipped, vividly depicts the racist acts of former Los Angeles Clippers owner. To find out when you can see it all, check here. FX’s ‘Clipped’ Is Six Episodes of Rich ...

  9. Category (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Examples include Set and CPO, the category of complete partial orders with Scott-continuous functions. A topos is a certain type of cartesian closed category in which all of mathematics can be formulated (just like classically all of mathematics is formulated in the category of sets). A topos can also be used to represent a logical theory.