apparent similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofapparentandsimilarity
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apparent
adjective
uk/əˈpær.ənt/us/əˈper.ənt/
able to be seen ...
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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 ofapparentandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The limited choice setting results from theapparentsimilarityacross the four sickness funds, both in the basic and the supplementary insurance domains.
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Such people are affected despite their lack ofapparentsimilaritywith the litigants participating in the precedential case.
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It is this apparent contradiction that provides memoirs with their force, instability, andapparentsimilarityto fiction.
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It is important to note that there is to date no direct comparison of antisocial girls specifically with childhood-onset boys to test thisapparentsimilarity.
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Theapparentsimilaritybetween philosophy and science would then be that both provide models for reality, and as such are directed to the future, precisely because both contain eternal elements.
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Part of the confusion in defining social deprivation seems to stem from itsapparentsimilarityto social exclusion.
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Negative spirals of increasing incivility between organizational members can result in bullying, but isolated acts of incivility are not conceptually bullying despite theapparentsimilarityin their form and content.
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First, it is argued that physicalism cannot account for the apparent similarities and differences between colors.
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Without a more detailed analysis of the geometry of these two plots, it is virtually impossible to draw any conclusions whatsoever about their apparent similarities.
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Despite the apparent similarities between the models, there are fundamental differences in the underlying mathematics between a deterministic and stochastic model, and in the assumptions that go along with them.
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