arbitrary standard
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarbitraryandstandard
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arbitrary
adjective
uk/ˈɑː.bɪ.trər.i/us/ˈɑːr.bə.trer.i/
based on chance rather than being planned or based ...
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standard
noun
uk/ˈstæn.dəd/us/ˈstæn.dɚd/
a level ...
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(Definition ofarbitraryandstandardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This assumption, however, may be anarbitrarystandardsince the requirements for a motion-detection system depend on the task that is to be solved.
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The entire energy and resources of people and organizations have to be diverted from any other useful activity in order to preserve their building to somearbitrarystandard.
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This, we can only suggest, is anarbitrarystandardand will lead to most unfair discrimination between consumers.
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It is not common sense to adopt onearbitrarystandardof road because it happens to be a departmental road.
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There is no desire for the purpose of this clause to invent anarbitrarystandardof good husbandry.
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The more that we limit the discretion of the court by having a fixedarbitrarystandard, the less easy it is to do that.
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It makes no sense to produce such a substance in pursuit of anarbitrarystandardfor a pesticide which is stricter than the levels which have been assessed as safe.
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But it is equally difficult to find any justification for the purelyarbitrarystandardwhich has been chosen, and which has already proved itself grossly unfair in many cases.
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There can be noarbitrarystandard.
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It is no good taking some particular year and regarding that year as anarbitrarystandardby which we can judge the future for all time.
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It is only a policy of fair rents for all, which cannot be determined by anarbitrarystandard, which is protecting the poorest families at present.
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They decried its emphasis on anarbitrarystandardof beauty.
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Since this selection constitutes anarbitrarystandard, however, standard varieties are only correct in the sense that they are highly valued within the society that uses the language.
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These bolls have then been examined, the number of punctures counted and the bolls graded according to arbitrary standards of staining.
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The idea that species have characteristic seed longevities is important in genebank scenarios, where the frequency of monitoring viability is set by arbitrary standards if biological standards are undefined.
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First, local circumvention strategies only free researchers -and partially at that-from the arbitrary standards of the flawed justification process.
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Clinicians have judged this co-operation by some arbitrary standards, and, if this was less than ideal, the user's motivation, or lack of it, was called into question.
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Arbitrary standards are always vulnerable, of course, to the difficulty of complaint about hardship, and so forth.
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These amendments attach the full importance to genuinely scientific data, avoiding what would otherwise appear to be arbitrary standards.
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