independent variable

A Dictionary of Geography;    SUSAN MAYHEW;   111 words ...independent variable In any study of cause and effect, the independent variable is the causal factor which shapes or determines...rivers would identify stream velocity as the independent variable which determines the size of particle that...

exogenous variable

A Dictionary of Statistics;    GRAHAM UPTON and IAN COOK;   13 words ...exogenous variable An independent variable in the context of an econometric model .

time domain

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      22 words ...time do·main • n. Physics time considered as an independent variable in the analysis or measurement of time-dependent phenomena.

limit

A Dictionary of Physics;    ALAN ISAACS;   15 words ...limit The value that a function approaches as the independent variable approaches a specified value.

abscissa

A Dictionary of Geography;    SUSAN MAYHEW;   24 words ...abscissa The horizontal, or x axis, of a graph. Where a causal factor or an independent variable can be clearly defined, it is recorded along the abscissa.

inverse function

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      43 words ...Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 inverse function the function obtained by expressing the independent variable of another function in terms of the dependent variable which is then regarded as an independent variable Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

dependent variable

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;    TIMOTHY DARVILL;   16 words ...dependent variable [Ge]. A variable or factor causally influenced by another (the independent variable).

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Education;  March 22, 2005 ;   Mills, Jamie D.;   787 words ......and one dependent variable. One independent variable involved the repeated measurement...paired-samples) t-test. The second independent variable involved a comparison of the morning...involves a within-subjects factor or independent variable that considers repeated measures...

implicit

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;    Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson;   32 words ...implicit Where the independent variable is not the only term on one side of an equation. For example, 3 x + 5 y − 1 = 0 is an implicit form while the equivalent equation y = 0.6 x + 0.2 is explicit.

artefact attribute

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology;    TIMOTHY DARVILL;   18 words ...artefact attribute [De]. A logically irreducible characteristic or independent variable within a specific artefact.

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US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 22, 2007 ;     311 words ......relationship between at least one independent variable and a dependent variable in a set...dependent variable and at least one independent variable are identified." An abstract of...organization of the data. Dependent and independent variable data are collected from the historical...

differential equation

Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      53 words ......derivative: such an equation is called an ordinary differential equation if it has only one independent variable and a partial differential equation if it has more than one independent variable Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

definite integral

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      32 words ...def·i·nite in·te·gral • n. Mathematics an integral expressed as the difference between the values of the integral at specified upper and lower limits of the independent variable.

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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 19, 2004 ;     419 words ......variables. For example, X and Y. An independent variable can be assigned any number at all...variable's value depends on what the independent variable is. In my life the independent variable is academics, and athletics depend...

unbounded function f(x)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;    Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson;   63 words ......function f(x) Not possessing both an upper and a lower bound. So for all positive real values V there is a value of the independent variable x for which | f ( x )| > V . For example, f ( x ) = x 2 is unbounded because f ( x ) ≥ 0 but f ( x ) →...