relative similarity

collocation in English

meaningsofrelativeandsimilarity

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relative
adjective
uk
/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
being judged or measured in comparison with ...
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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 ofrelativeandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In this article, we outline our attempts to address the question ofrelativesimilarityof accents using quantitative methods.
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In the ethnographies, these two neighborhoods presented a picture ofrelativesimilarityin their social fabric.
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Thisrelativesimilarityin the national back vowel picture does not suggest a stable back system.
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This is not affected by therelativesimilarityof the new grammatical and ungrammatical sentences to the previously experienced sentences either.
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It is true that one may object to bringing goals into play by pointing to therelativesimilarityof displayed postures and the first phase of the response movement.
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The recognition heuristic is not adequate to explain this effect because it concerns therelativesimilarity of previous cases, not the absolute presence versus absence of a previous case.
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There could be more joint recession development, given therelativesimilarityof trade.
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Immediate and delayed free-recall will have the same recency effect because therelativesimilarityof the contexts still exist.
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Again, like owls, diurnal raptors are attacked depending on therelativesimilarityof their habitat preferences to the owl.
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Patterns in therelativesimilarityof shared narratives are almost entirely dictated by the historic-period propinquity of the groups sharing narratives.
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The similarity matrix is provided as an input and consists of a quantitative assessment of therelativesimilarityof each pair of points in the dataset.
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However, because of the relative similarities between the terms stabilization and homogenization, the amount of stabilization or homogenization a certain genre maintains is based on opinion.
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