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motif
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2009
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mo·tif
/ mōˈtēf/
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n.
a decorative design or pattern:
T-shirts featuring spiral motifs.
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a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition:
the nautical motif of his latest novel.
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Mus.
a short succession of notes producing a single impression; a brief melodic or rhythmic formula out of which longer passages are developed:
the motif in the second violin is submerged by the first violin's countermelody.
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an ornament of lace, braid, etc., sewn separately on a garment.
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Biochem.
a distinctive sequence on a protein or DNA, having a three-dimensional structure that allows binding interactions to occur.
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Motif Zone Website Launched By ICS, Provides Most Complete Information And Latest Software To Motif Developers.
Business Wire; 10/20/1997; 700+ words
; ...Oct. 20, 1997-- Online Zine, "The Motif Developer", Addresses Knowledge Needs of Professional...Developers A new website devoted exclusively to Motif(R) information and resources, The Motif Zone, has been launched and is now accessible...
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MOTIF FORMS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH KYOCERA
PR Newswire; 6/13/1994; 700+ words
; ...WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Motif Inc., the developer and manufacturer...LCDs. This alliance between Kyocera and Motif represents yet another key milestone in...LCD technology. Through the alliance, Motif, a joint venture between Motorola (NYSE...
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MOTIF ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH SANYO FOR ACTIVE ADDRESSING TECHNOLOGY
PR Newswire; 12/6/1993; 700+ words
; ...WILSONVILLE, Ore., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Motif Inc., the developer and manufacturer...alliance with Tottori Sanyo of Tokyo. Motif, jointly formed one year ago by Motorola...with Sanyo represents a key milestone for Motif in the broad commercialization of Active...
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Discriminative motif discovery in DNA and protein sequences using the DEME algorithm.(Research article)(deoxyribonucleic acid)
Magazine article from: BMC Bioinformatics; 10/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...challenging problem for motif discovery algorithms...distinguish functional motifs from random patterns...Discriminative motif discovery attempts to find motifs that occur more...discriminative motif discovery can be used to find motifs that are indicative...
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Quantifying similarity between motifs.(Method)
Magazine article from: Genome Biology (Online Edition); 2/26/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...highly redundant motifs within an existing motif database. Figure...query and target motifs are both derived from JASPAR motif NF-Y, following...aligning it with each motif column in a database of 'target' motifs. Using a dynamic...
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MOTIF TO FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH ASAHI
PR Newswire; 5/30/1994; 700+ words
; ...WILSONVILLE, Ore., May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Motif Inc., the developer and manufacturer...world. This alliance between Asahi and Motif represents yet another key milestone in...LCD technology. Through the alliance, Motif, a joint venture between Motorola (NYSE...
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Open Motif Updated.
Newspaper article from: Linux Gram; 1/28/2002; 678 words
; ...been ever so long since they revved Motif, several years at least, but they're about to and that means that Open Motif, the Linux version of the Unix icon...license. Anyway, that'll jig Open Motif, the equivalent, shall we say, of...
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EXMOTIF: efficient structured motif extraction.(Research)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Algorithms for Molecular Biology; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...adjacent simple motifs. More formally, a structured motif, [??], is...the structured motif extraction problem, the component motifs [M.sub.i...define a structured motif template...the structured motifs to be extracted...
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Refining motifs by improving information content scores using neighborhood profile search.(Research)(Clinical report)
Magazine article from: Algorithms for Molecular Biology; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...several variations of the motif finding algorithms...the occurences of the motifs and then recover a pattern...literature available on the motif finding problem, many...probabilistic models used for motif refinement [5,6...framework for refining motifs using systematic subspace...
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Evaluating deterministic motif significance measures in protein databases.(Research)
Magazine article from: Algorithms for Molecular Biology; 12/24/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Different types of motifs representation have...A probabilistic motif consists of a model...being matched by the motif is yielded. Position...of probabilistic motifs. Deterministic motifs...relevant and significant motifs. By itself, the...of a significant motif is an ...
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Motif in Music
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...or by following the motif with contrasting material...repeating it. Although motifs vary in length, they...personal fate, of a motif or of several motifs simultaneously...same "ha ha ha haaa" motif. Melodic motifs. Melodic motifs have...
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Motif in Literature
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...confusion, theme and motif — potentially...interchangeably, strings of motifs often made synonymous...as recurring literary motifs. Such lists are potentially...as Stith Thompson's motif-index and Daemmrich...didactic, or homiletic motifs, as has David F. Johnson...
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motif
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
motif , in literature, term that...and literature. Examples of motifs include swords, money, food...reunions, chaos brought to order. Motifs are not restricted to literature...The visual arts often rely on motifs to communicate deeper levels...
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Motif
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MOTIF. This entry includes two subentries: Motif in Literature Motif in Music
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OSF/Motif
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
OSF/Motif Trademark A graphical user interface available under license from OSF , based on Microsoft Presentation Manager, Hewlett-Packard New Wave, and the DEC Windowing Toolkit implementation of X Windows .
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