ANTONYM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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ANTONYM. One of two WORDS or other expressions that have opposite meanings:
fast and
slow,
hot and
cold. Some words are antonymous in some contexts but not others:
straight is generally the opposite of
bent/curved, but is the antonym of
gay in the context of homosexuality. Linguists identify three types of antonymy: (1) Gradable antonyms, which operate on a continuum: (
very)
big, (
very)
small. Such pairs often occur in binomial phrases with
and: (
blow)
hot and cold, (
search)
high and low. (2) Complementary antonyms, which express an either/or relationship:
dead or
alive,
male or
female. (3)
Converse or
relational antonyms, expressing reciprocity:
borrow or
lend,
buy or
sell,
wife or
husband. See
SEMANTICS,
SYNONYM.
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Beyond mule kicks: the Poisson distribution in geographical analysis.
Magazine article from: Geographical Analysis; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...theory has led to the creation of powerful Poisson-based modeling tools for geographically...he came very close to discovering the Poisson distribution (Hald 1998, p. 214), Simeon-Denis Poisson is credited with introducing the distribution...
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Beyond the bell-shaped curve: Poisson models in spatial data analysis.
Magazine article from: Geographical Analysis; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Poisson distribution, first reported in print by Simeon-Denis Poisson in 1837, describes the probability that a random...though rare, occurs a few times. It motivated Poisson to introduce the expression "law of large numbers...
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Poisson probably accounts for sharks. (Punchline).(shark attacks explained by Poisson process)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: IIE Solutions; 11/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...There is something in probability theory called a Poisson process, giving amazingly good descriptions of such...discovered by the French mathematician and probabilist Simeon Denis Poisson, who consulted with the Prussian army in the early...
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The odds were 1-in-185m, and he won
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/19/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...achievement" more unlikely than is indicated by the Poisson distribution. The Poisson distribution, named for the 18th century French physicist Simeon-Denis Poisson, allows statisticians to determine whether...
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Science in the Eye of the Beholder, 1789-1820*
Magazine article from: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the equations entailing the wave theory of light. Simeon-Denis Poisson mathematicized the forces of electrostatic and magnetic...and mathematical construction of electrodynamics. Poisson and Sophie Germain developed competing formulations...
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 6/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...statistics, for example, there is an entity named the Poisson distribution, used for estimating the occurrence...first derived in 1837 by the French mathematician Simeon-Denis Poisson from a study of deaths by horse kicks in the Prussian...
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More is more. (empirical mathematics)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/1/1995; 700+ words
; ...we inaugurate a new column on advances in the mathematical arts, named after the great French mathematician Simeon Denis Poisson (1781-1840). These articles will be presented, insofar as possible, in the mathematicians' own words...
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Blackbody radiation and the carbon particle.
Magazine article from: Progress in Physics; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...through the writings of Pierre Prevost, Pierre Louis Dulong, Alexis Therese Petit, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Simeon Denis Poisson, Frederick Herve de la Provostaye, Paul Quentin Desain, Balfour Stewart, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, and Max...
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