v
(computing) To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
n
Alternative spelling of backreference [(regular expressions) An item in a regular expression equivalent to the text matched by an earlier pattern in the expression.]
v
(regular expressions, transitive) To access (the text matched by an earlier pattern in a regular expression).
adj
(computing) Preliminary; prerelease. Refers to an incomplete version of a product released for initial testing.
n
A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
n
(uncountable, software engineering) The practice of ensuring that a product supports a set of features considered important for marketing, regardless of whether they are valuable features.
n
One who, or that which, adds captions.
n
An entry in a list of sources from which information was taken, typically following a prescribed bibliographical style; a reference.
n
A group of academic authors who collude to egregiously cite one another's publications in order to increase their citation counts.
n
(law) An index of citations of legal cases and other sources
v
to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
n
One who is cited, or receives a citation.
n
(informal, Wikimedia jargon) A circular form of citation where various sources report each other.
n
(computing) A program or algorithm that classifies.
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Alternative spelling of co-citation [(Internet) The simultaneous linking to each of a group of webpages from each of another group of webpages, even though the members of the group do not link to each other; used by some search engines to establish a connection between related pages.]
n
One who or that which codifies.
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An unethical practice of peer reviewers or journal editors wherein an author of a submitted paper is directed to include citations for one or more of the reviewer's or journal's published articles.
n
(linguistics) The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
n
(in bibliographies) Abbreviation of compilation. [(uncountable) The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.]
n
A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics on the basis of broadcast time allotments.
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A person or automated system that compiles a concordance.
n
(usually in the plural) A list of errors in a printed work as a separate page of corrections.
v
(transitive) To index under a secondary heading or keyword, so that an item may be looked up or located in an alternative way.
v
To make or use a cross-reference
n
A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work.
n
(informal) cross-reference
n
Alternative form of cross-reference [A reference or direction in one place in a book or other source of information to information at another place in the same work.]
n
(statistical quality control) cumulative sum control chart: a sequential analysis technique typically used for monitoring change detection
n
The process of reviewing or revising a text.
n
(law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original
n
An individual design of this kind.
n
A fuller treatment (in a separate section) of a particular part of the text of a book, especially a classic.
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A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
n
(law) A will that is handwritten by the testator, without the usual formalities of execution.
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communication (a giving or sharing of information etc)
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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
n
An index of subjects; used when a work contains multiple indices, such as one for personal names (index nominum), passages cited (index locorum), or words (index verborum)
n
That which indicates or points out.
v
To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.
n
That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
n
(formal) Indications or signs.
adj
(typography) Printed in subscript.
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That which resolves uncertainty; anything that answers the question of "what a given entity is".
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Copula, copulative verb.
n
The process of locating a term in a reference work.
n
The citing of another citation rather than an original source.
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A comment made about another comment.
n
A commentary on a commentary.
adv
In the work (already) cited or quoted. Used, typically in footnotes and endnotes, to cite in an abbreviated form a source that has been cited previously; frequently abbreviated as op. cit.
v
To sort text into paragraphs.
n
(law) In legal writing, a portion of a citation indicating an additional publication of the document cited.
n
(law) pinpoint citation; a type of citation in which the exact page for certain information is provided
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A standardised method of selecting articles for systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
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Synonym of program evaluation and review technique
n
A text established by critical revision.
adj
said of a journal whose articles are submitted to peer review
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(academic writing) A short written identification of a previously published work which is used as a source for a text.
n
(Internet) Alternative form of referrer (“the referring URL”) [A person who refers another.]
n
(computing, informal) Someone who uses regular expressions.
n
Cross-reference in text; a sign that refers to something introduced earlier in a text.
n
Abbreviation of review. [A second or subsequent reading of a text or artifact in an attempt to gain new insights.]
v
(transitive) To scan and translate (a Korean or Japanese manga) in order to distribute it to speakers of other (usually Western) languages.
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(textual criticism) An error indicating that one manuscript has not been copied from another.
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A semantic unit, something that conveys meaning or information (e.g. a word of written language); (linguistics, semiotics) a unit consisting of a signifier and a signified concept. (See sign (semiotics).)
adj
(obsolete) Bearing signs.
v
To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.
adj
(computing) Emulated with software; not physically real.
n
(Britain, informal, often in plural) A subscription: a payment made for membership of a club, etc.
v
(transitive) To provide with a subordinate caption.
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(law school) To independently verify the validity of citations in an article.
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A commentary (series of comments or annotations) on another commentary.
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The cross-reference of a cross-reference.
v
(transitive) To indicate by signs or hints; to indicate imperfectly.
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The act of indicating by signs; a slight indication.
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Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered alone, as in a legal document.
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The addition of subtitles to a work.
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An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.
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A commentary (series of comments or annotations) on another commentary; a subcommentary.
n
The act of superscribing.
adv
(law) Used to indicate that the current citation is from the same source as the previous one.
n
That which a thing betokens; meaning, interpretation.
n
Something currently talked about.
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(authorship) A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.
n
(in bibliographies) Abbreviation of translator. [A person who translates speech, text, film, or other material into a different natural language.]
n
Abbreviation of unsubscriber. [One who unsubscribes.]
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