partial knowledge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpartialandknowledge
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partial
adjective
uk/ˈpɑː.ʃəl/us/ˈpɑːr.ʃəl/
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knowledge
noun
uk/ˈnɒl.ɪdʒ/us/ˈnɑː.lɪdʒ/
understanding of or information about a subject that you get by experience or study, either known by one person or by ...
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(Definition ofpartialandknowledgefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A weak verb-general representation would mean that the children havepartialknowledgeof what is involved in the transitive construction.
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A common approach within functional and logic programming, known respectively as partial evaluation and partial deduction, is to exploitpartialknowledgeabout the input.
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The role of sentence context in accessingpartialknowledgeof word meanings.
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Nevertheless, if they havepartialknowledgeof a word, their word associations can reflect this.
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A common approach, known as partial evaluation is to guide the transformation bypartialknowledgeabout the input.
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However, when responses were scored forpartialknowledge, there was little difference among vocabulary sizes at each frequency band.
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While a global method is one that assumes complete knowledge about its environment, a local method, on the other hand, assumespartialknowledge.
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We make use of thispartialknowledgefor learning the concept that is behind the partially defined constraint.
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Subjects usually hadpartialknowledgeof the der ivatives, with productive knowledge of two or three for ms being typical.
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Partialknowledgeof some items was increased, though at the same time misconceptions about other items were seen.
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More often, and more realistically,partialknowledgeof the network, usually of local nature, is assumed.
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Two points were allotted for an entirely correct answer, one point for a definition showingpartialknowledge, and zero points for an incorrect answer.
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They havepartialknowledgeand control in their surroundings.
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In fact, there is considerable evidence that speakers holdpartialknowledgeof many words.
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Literature on vocabulary learning indicates that people havepartialknowledgeof many more words than they can define or use explicitly.
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First, because vocabulary is learned incrementally, we must develop measures that capturepartialknowledge of words, perhaps by using productive and receptive matching tasks in each study.
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Indeed, in most modern legal systems, most citizens have no idea what their rule of recognition is and hence have, at best, apartialknowledgeof the marks of authority.
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