degree of similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdegreeandsimilarity
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degree
noun
uk/dɪˈɡriː/us/dɪˈɡriː/
(an) amount or level ...
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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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The three main aspects that characterize a pattern matching technique are pattern classes,degreeofsimilarity, and matching methods.
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If speakers wish to determine thedegreeofsimilaritybetween two morphologically related forms, they must decide which elements to compare.
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Second, the cluster analysis procedure grouped individuals based on theirdegreeofsimilarity.
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The similarity parameters indicate thedegreeofsimilaritybetween each pair of dialects.
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In general, there was a remarkabledegreeofsimilarityacross speakers in context and in form (apology terms and extensions).
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Due to the highdegreeofsimilaritybetween these versions of the scale, results are presented only for the full scale.
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In these cases, we suggest taking into account only the maximumdegreeofsimilarityof the states that this operation has been applied.
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In this way, we registereddegreeofsimilarityvalues for only those rules which were proposing the appropriate operation for a particular parsing state.
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To determine whether there are transfer effects, comparison with monolingual development is called for to ascertain thedegreeofsimilarityand difference.
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By specific causes, a noticeably highdegreeofsimilaritybetween the two study groups appears to prevail.
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This time we found only 297 cases where the appropriate operation did not have the maximumdegreeofsimilarity.
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We then decided to ignore those rules of very smalldegreeofsimilarity, since they propose quite inappropriate operations.
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Eleven bipolar constructs covering domains of inferiority, competency, attractiveness anddegreeofsimilaritymake up the full scale.
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For the topological generalization, layout design cases are clustered based on classes ofdegreeofsimilaritybetween them.
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As with topological pattern-matching, in this kind of pattern-matching, layout cases can be clustered using classes ofdegreeofsimilarity.
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We also consider that two parsing states are similar if theirdegreeofsimilarityis greater than a threshold.
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This can explain situations in which thedegreeofsimilarityto a single neighbor influences perception.
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Finally, the overalldegreeofsimilarityof associations was somewhat higher for nouns than for verbs.
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This value is numerical, but it can be transformed into a qualitative measure representing a certaindegreeofsimilarity.
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One or more than one different number of corresponding spaces can be used as a class ofdegreeofsimilarity.
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