Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition of being patchy; the appearance of being patched or of being made up of patches.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Unevenness in quality or performance.
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- noun The condition of being
patchy
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- noun unevenness in quality or performance
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Examples
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(I'm the first to admit that there is a certain patchiness to the collection.
Giving Writers a Chance Sharon Bakar 2005
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(I'm the first to admit that there is a certain patchiness to the collection.
Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005
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Now, that kind of patchiness could reflect horizontal heat transport as wella s vertical, but it MUST have involved oceanic transport, not simply sea-air transport.
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What seems to be emerging is that heterogeneity, or "patchiness", and diversity is very much more important to nature than an ecologically correct apartheid between "exotics" and
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
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In the late 1980s, my mentor Bob May had done studies with Michael Hassell of Imperial College, Silwood Park, on wasps that lay their eggs in or on insects which revealed there was a patchiness in the distribution of predator and prey.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The patchiness and brown color of many of the marshes are a sign that they are breaking up and dying.
Bill Chameides: Gulf Oil Blowout and Gusher: Environmental Catastrophe or Much Ado About Nothing? 2010
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It took her a few songs, on Tuesday, to get warmed up, but once the power had been massaged back into the voice and the patchiness had been largely thrown off, she seemed determined to stick around and enjoy it.
Aretha Franklin, Condi Rice show each other a little bit of R-E-S-P-E-C-T 2010
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Ivory Coast's patchiness must be galling to tournament organisers who hoped to see an impressive African line-up.
World Cup 2010: Brazil beat Ivory Coast with Luís Fabiano's helping hand Kevin McCarra at Soccer City 2010
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Owing to the absence or patchiness of ice, spotted seals have increased access to the extreme inshore waters where smelt and saffron cod, and other food fishes, congregate in large numbers in early autumn.
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The size of the experiments (2m x 2m?) may have been too small to allow for spatial heterogeneity and patchiness, which may be an important factor in real ecosystems.
hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Insightful Analysis: Naeem et al’s Box-Ecosystems and Diversity 2007
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