intellectual ability

collocation in English

meaningsofintellectualandability

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intellectual
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/
us
/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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ability
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
us
/əˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
the physical or mental power or skill needed to ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandabilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This was followed by perceivedintellectualability, which explained 12.96%.
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Another limitation of the study is the lack of control ofintellectualabilityor intelligence, which, unfortunately, was not measured.
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Raw scores were standardized, summed, and converted to a percentile for a measure of maternalintellectualability.
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Other investigations have measured the relation between resting brain activity andintellectualability.
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Table 3 presents the results comparing only children with all others by five types ofintellectualability: general, verbal, quantitative, spatial and non-verbal.
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An additional reason for the inconsistency between the present study and other research may be that samples differ in respect tointellectualability.
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It may need to be adapted according to theintellectualabilityand existing knowledge of the health of the patient.
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On one level she saw it as an indicator ofintellectualability.
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It conferred prestige and suggested moral superiority,intellectualability, modernity, and efficiency.
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Finally,intellectualabilitymay be a marker of developmental precision and health.
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On average, both groups performed overall in the high average range ofintellectualability.
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However, if the relationship stems from a shared sensitivity to cognitive decline, then statistically controlling for childhoodintellectualabilityshould leave the correlation unaffected.
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These factors were then investigated for their contribution to the explanation of variance inintellectualability.
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With grammatical complexity thus linked to the relativeintellectualabilityof the mind that used it, this theory served to justify elite hegemony in the public sphere.
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In addition, despite 80% having average to above averageintellectualability, 42% of the children either required placement in special classes or individual instruction for learning or behavioural problems.
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Inferiorintellectualabilitywas not in fact implicated to any great degree with the occurrence or recurrence of pregnancy in the single girls.
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During the twentieth century, the many empirical investigations of the relationship between family configuration andintellectualabilityhave yielded mixed results regarding the intellectual status of only children.
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