perceived similarity

collocation in English

meaningsofperceiveandsimilarity

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perceive
verb[T]
uk
/pəˈsiːv/us
/pɚ-/
to come to an opinion about something, or have a belief ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us
/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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(Definition ofperceiveandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The co-occurrence of identical consonants thus presents the limiting case of a more general stochastic constraint onperceivedsimilarity.
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The coordinates vary with illumination, do not captureperceivedsimilarityrelations, and are tied to very specific and (outside the laboratory) uncommon viewing conditions.
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It applies only to consonants which are perceived to be similar, and the strength of the effect increases withperceivedsimilarity.
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The restrictions on homorganic (partially similar) and identical (fully similar) segments are therefore captured by a single principle - a statistical monotonic ban onperceivedsimilarity.
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Living things were matched more slowly than nonliving things, consistent with them having higher levels ofperceivedsimilarity.
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The context of two situations can affectperceivedsimilarity.
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Frisch et al. (1997) extended this proposal by providing a detailed formal analysis ofperceivedsimilarity.
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Iconic gestures draw their communicative strength from theirperceivedsimilarityto a phenomenon simultaneously encoded in speech.
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This alters distances between exemplars according to theirperceivedsimilarityon an attended dimension; therefore, similarity relations are context dependent.
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However, it is possible that naive theories simply modify theperceivedsimilarityof a set of objects, until these objects become similar enough to form a category.
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This strategy reduced the most uncertainty of the target person by showing aperceivedsimilarityand increasing social attraction.
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The name was given due to theirperceivedsimilarityto shrikes, indeed a former common name for the group was swallow-starlings.
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Homophily is theperceivedsimilaritybetween speaker and listener.
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The originally jocular name arose from theirperceivedsimilarityto the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once sold.
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The common name hemlock is derived from aperceivedsimilarityin the smell of its crushed foliage to that of the unrelated plant poison hemlock.
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Additionally,perceivedsimilaritywas found to be greater than actual similarity in predicting interpersonal attraction.
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Using perceived similarities in order to determine cultural affiliation or the type and intensity of interactions may easily lead astray.
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Participants are then asked to individually sort those statements into categories based on theirperceivedsimilarityand rate each statement on one or more scales, such as importance or feasibility.
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Market/commercial-based views concentrate on products as competing for similar/same indications, having similar names, or any other perceived similarities.
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