Collocations withsimilarity
These are words often used in combination withsimilarity.
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apparent similarity
The limited choice setting results from the apparent similarity across the four sickness funds, both in the basic and the supplementary insurance domains.
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certain similarity
A certain similarity of before and after thus composes an illusion of continuity.
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close similarity
Note the close similarity between the two cases (dotted and solid lines).
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considerable similarity
One can suggest that there might be a considerable similarity between the respective transition mechanisms in boundary layers and in pipes.
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cultural similarity
Only in one case, moreover, can any sentiment resembling a sense of cultural similarity be detected.
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degree of similarity
The three main aspects that characterize a pattern matching technique are pattern classes, degree of similarity, and matching methods.
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formal similarity
The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring the formal similarity of the two processes.
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functional similarity
In general, functional similarity demands a constellation of behaviors that, together, are uniquely consistent with the process of interest.
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fundamental similarity
This would imply that infracommunities in fish, bird and mammals share a fundamental similarity, that of random assembly.
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genetic similarity
Sibling relative risk is an important indicator of "familiality," but does not distinguish effects of family environment from genetic similarity.
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important similarity
The most important similarity, of course, exists at the point of donation.
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linguistic similarity
Therefore, the ravages of age are possible to overcome and variance from such factors as linguistic similarity overrides some of these effects.
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marked similarity
A comparison of the two sets of tax proposals shows a marked similarity.
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morphological similarity
Within this genus, several species groups have been recognized on the basis of morphological similarity, although their monophyly appears uncertain.
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overall similarity
The similarity between each word in the two sentences was then calculated and the sum of the closest matches gave the overall similarity.
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perceived similarity
The co-occurrence of identical consonants thus presents the limiting case of a more general stochastic constraint on perceived similarity.
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relative similarity
In this article, we outline our attempts to address the question of relative similarity of accents using quantitative methods.
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remarkable similarity
After precise investigation, we can see a remarkable similarity of the curves.
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semantic similarity
These results indicate that simplified texts exhibited more semantic similarity within sentences and within paragraphs than did authentic texts.
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significant similarity
None of the stage mortality curves displayed significant similarity to the total mortality curve in the dry season (fig. 1b).
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similarity coefficient
For instance, based on linguistic analysis, the similarity coefficient between elements ' ' telephone' ' and ' ' phone' ' from the two hypothetical schemas could be 0,7.
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similarity measure
Incorporating more information in the node attributes will also obtain a more meaningful similarity measure.
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similarity score
When comparing two sentences, the first constraint is that the similarity score is 100% if the two sentences are identical.
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striking similarity
There is of course a striking similarity between the judgements to be found in contemporary reports and in some of the later historiography.
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strong similarity
Our study indicates strong similarity between frogs and lizards in diet despite enormous differences in physiology and behaviour.
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structural similarity
Whatever effect structural similarity exerts on learning, it does not change with the age of the learner.
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stylistic similarity
Perceptual style is stylistic similarity or difference in the eye of the beholder, which is dependent on visual similarity.
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substantial similarity
This process indispensably requires conviction of a substantial similarity between them and us.
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superficial similarity
As is clear from the history of linguistics, this superficial similarity has not been a serious problem for working out the relationships among these languages.
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underlying similarity
This similarity between the performance of young normal children and the affected family members may reflect an underlying similarity of their linguistic systems.
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visual similarity
In this manner, visual similarity with real words was lost, but we could test graphemeto-phoneme correspondence if the syllable structure was kept constant.
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