Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Taking under specified conditions only a single value.
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- adjective mathematics Of a
function , associating aunique value of itsrange with each value of itsdomain .
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Examples
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This is by necessity, rights are written at a lofty level of abstraction who application is neither straightforward nor single-valued.
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In general, single-valued measures such as average word length, average sentence length, or mean “reading level” tend not to work as well as multivariate measures, where you measure lots of different properties of the text, such as the frequencies of fifty or a hundred different words.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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This is by necessity, rights are written at a lofty level of abstraction who application is neither straightforward nor single-valued.
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In general, single-valued measures such as average word length, average sentence length, or mean “reading level” tend not to work as well as multivariate measures, where you measure lots of different properties of the text, such as the frequencies of fifty or a hundred different words.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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This is by necessity, rights are written at a lofty level of abstraction who application is neither straightforward nor single-valued.
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This is by necessity, rights are written at a lofty level of abstraction who application is neither straightforward nor single-valued.
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I define racism as a single-valued, continuous mapping....
The Achievement Gap Tim Harford 2007
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Since the path-dependent probability function is in general not single-valued, one has to take into account *every possible causal history,* which is of course an impossible task.
A brief look at two comments on one ID-creo site - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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He was trying to visualize a gravity pull whose intensity was not a single-valued pressure but a uniform continuum of pressure values from a minimum to a maximum.
Unthinkable Roger Phillips Graham 1937
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Of course, time travel cannot be logically self-consistent because there are lots of logical problems with the history that is not a single-valued function of time.
The Reference Frame 2010
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