Contrastive may refer to one of several concepts in linguistics: Contrast (linguistics) Contrastive linguistics Contrastive distribution Contrastive analysis...

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substituted for another in that environment. A contrastive distribution is demonstrated with a minimal pair. Contrastive distribution is distinct from complementary...

Contrastive Hebbian learning is a biologically plausible form of Hebbian learning. It is based on the contrastive divergence algorithm, which has been...

Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) distinguishable from a background...

Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training (CLIP) is a technique for training a pair of neural network models, one for image understanding and one for text...

1966, when Kaplan's original work on contrastive rhetoric appeared, and 1996, when Ulla Connor's book on contrastive rhetoric reinvigorated interest in...

as styles (contrastive rhetoric), dialects, registers or terminologies of technical genres. Contrastive analysis Translation Contrastive rhetoric Di...

Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction...

been mapped out through contrastive analysis, it would be possible to design language courses more efficiently. Contrastive analysis, along with behaviourism...

images that do not. Contrastive self-supervised learning uses both positive and negative examples. The loss function in contrastive learning is used to...

contrast agent (or contrast medium) is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging. Contrast...

Look up contrasts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contrasts may refer to: Contrasts (Aziza Mustafa Zadeh album), 2006 Contrasts (Bucky Pizzarelli...

general class of Boltzmann machines, in particular the gradient-based contrastive divergence algorithm. Restricted Boltzmann machines can also be used...

of triplet loss is the contrastive loss, which operates on pairs of samples (rather than triplets). Training with the contrastive loss pulls embeddings...

contrast and contrastive relations in semantics has concentrated on characterizing exactly which semantic relationships could give rise to contrast....

Behavioral contrast refers to a change in the strength of one response that occurs when the rate of reward of a second response, or of the first response...

Languages in Contrast is a peer-reviewed academic journal of contrastive linguistics established in 1998 and published biannually by John Benjamins Publishing...

particular phonemic contrast, then, the pair must be contrastive in one's input. Generally, the earlier a language and/or phonemic contrast is learned, or...

The contrast ratio (CR) is a property of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest shade (white) to that of the darkest...

adversative, presents a contrast or exception ("They gamble, but they don't smoke.") Or – presents an alternative non-contrasting item or idea ("Every day...

Simultaneous Contrasts (French: Contrastes simultanés) is the title of a series of paintings created by Sonia Delaunay, beginning in 1912. The series...

Iodinated contrast is a form of water-soluble, intravenous radiocontrast agent containing iodine, which enhances the visibility of vascular structures...

encountered in self-supervised learning, especially within contrastive and non-contrastive frameworks, when training objectives or model architectures...

rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. A contrast effect is the enhancement or diminishment, relative to normal, of perception...

statistics, particularly in the analysis of variance and linear regression, a contrast is a linear combination of variables (parameters or statistics) whose coefficients...

conveys the part of the sentence that contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. In the English sentence "Mary only insulted BILL", focus...

Eucharistic theology is a branch of Christian theology which treats doctrines concerning the Holy Eucharist, also commonly known as the Lord's Supper and...

complementary colors are placed next to each other, they create a strong contrast. Complementary colors may also be called "opposite colors". Which pairs...

In physics and digital imaging, contrast is a quantifiable property used to describe the difference in appearance between elements within a visual field...

The Contrast is an 1832 novel by the British writer and politician Lord Normanby, originally published in three volumes. It was his third novel following...

The Contrast Rocks (54°4′S 36°57′W / 54.067°S 36.950°W / -54.067; -36.950) are a small group of rocks 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) east of Antarctic Point...

Contrast CT, or contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT), is X-ray computed tomography (CT) using radiocontrast. Radiocontrasts for X-ray CT are generally...

scholar. Her research interests include translation theory and practice, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness theory, English as lingua...

of the incarnation of the Son in Jesus being of special importance. In contrast, Judaism believes in and emphasizes the oneness of God and rejects the...

It is often contrasted with appearance, opposing what is with what seems to be, although the accuracy and fundamentality of this contrast are disputed...

languages, South Asian languages and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive. In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), aspirated consonants are...

predominant in rock music since the 1960s. In contrast to 32-bar form, which is focused on the refrain (contrasted and prepared by the B section), in verse–chorus...

Density contrast is a parameter used in galaxy formation to indicate where there are local enhancements in matter density. Δ = ∂ ϱ ϱ {\displaystyle \Delta...

In literature, an author uses contrast when they describe the difference(s) between two or more entities. It is common in many works of literature. For...

MRI contrast agents are contrast agents used to improve the visibility of internal body structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The most commonly...

Stark Contrast may refer to: Stark Contrast (horse), an American Thoroughbred race horse Stark Contrast (title), Superior Iron Man, Invincible Iron Man...

circulatory system and lymphatic drainage. Experimental evidence suggests that contrast hydrotherapy helps to reduce injury in the acute stages by stimulating...

The CONTRASTS expedition was a two-month scientific expedition in the Arctic Ocean (July 2025 – September 2025) to investigate sea ice melt across three...

Jazz Contrasts is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham, recorded in 1957 and released on the Riverside label. The AllMusic review by Scott...

learning. The symmetric, midpoint version of GeneRec is equivalent to the contrastive Hebbian learning algorithm (CHL). Leabra O'Reilly (1996; Neural Computation)...

Contrast is a five-song EP and the first release from the Tennessee-based band The Features following their departure from Universal Records. The band...

unit (marked as a minor prosodic break), and a double stress mark for contrastive/emphatic stress: [ˈˈɑ̃ːˈtre | məˈsjø ‖ ˈˈvwala maˈdam ‖] Entrez monsieur...

Optical contrast seekers, or simply contrast seekers, are a type of missile guidance system using a television camera as its primary input. The camera...

Contrast (Japanese: コントラスト) is a Japanese romantic drama television series with a Boys' Love (BL) theme, based on the manga of the same name. Produced...

Phase-contrast microscopy (PCM) is an optical microscopy technique that converts phase shifts in light passing through a transparent specimen to brightness...

exclusively to write Coptic text, but Greek and Coptic letter forms are contrastive in many scholarly works, necessitating their disunification. Any specifically...

the auditory experience of attending a concert. Access consciousness, by contrast, refers to an awareness of information that is accessible to other mental...

Differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, also called Nomarski interference contrast (NIC) or Nomarski microscopy, is an optical microscopy...

on the Tokyo dialect. There is no overall consensus on the number of contrastive individual sounds (phonemes). Common approaches recognize at least 12...

Contrasts (Sz. 111, BB 116) is a 1938 composition scored for clarinet–violin–piano trio by Béla Bartók (1881–1945). It is based on Hungarian and Romanian...

have contrastive breathy voice. In the case of Xhosa, there is a four-way contrast analogous to Indic in oral clicks, and similarly a two-way contrast among...

Luís Fróis (1532 – 8 July 1597) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and missionary who worked in Asia, most notably Japan, during the second half of the 16th...

Barrett (born 18 September 1979), better known by the stage name High Contrast, is a Welsh electronic music producer, DJ and record producer. He produces...

Training tasks typically fall under the classes of either contrastive, generative or both. Contrastive representation learning trains representations for associated...

extreme. "Simultaneous contrast effect" is the term used when stimuli are presented at the same time, whereas successive contrast applies when stimuli are...

(the default emphasis of certain words within phrases or clauses), and contrastive stress (used to highlight an item, a word or part of a word, that is...

term "urban area" contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets. In urban sociology or urban anthropology, it often contrasts with natural environment...

Applications include photographs with poor contrast due to glare, for example. A typical case is contrast stretching. In more general fields of data processing...

server, an FTP server, an email server, or other similar systems. This contrasts with uploading, where data is sent to a remote system. A download is a...

the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is...

solve this issue is to employ contrastive explanations. Several philosophers of science, such as Lipton, argue that contrastive explanations are able to detect...

Clarinet Contrast was a clarinet ensemble with rhythm group led by clarinetist Theo Jörgensmann. The group, which included members from four countries...

America and Asia, it is generally regarded as a branch of anthropology. In contrast, in Europe, it is considered either an independent discipline or a subfield...

Total Contrast were a male musical duo from England, specialising in soul and electro music. They are well known for their 1985 hit "Takes a Little Time"...

Emotion classification is the means by which one may distinguish or contrast one emotion from another. It is a contested issue in emotion research and...

atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which is the belief that at least one deity exists. Historically...

or phonologically as distinctive or contrastive. Even in those languages which do have phonologically contrastive length, a chroneme is only posited in...

is a web page that is delivered to a web browser exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages which are generated by a web application. Consequently...

the phonemes is absent in the homonym accent but only that it is not contrastive in the same range of contexts; for example in accents with strong /æ/-raising...

orange fragrance (see orange oil) and for its ability to dissolve oils. In contrast, (−)-limonene has a piny, turpentine-like odor. Limonene is used as a solvent...

amorphous or trendy. Supporters of the term include those who use it to contrast with a more assimilationist part of the gay rights movement, and to signify...

the elements they connect, and semantically, they express additive, contrastive, or alternative relationships between those elements. Matthews defines...

equalization (AHE) is a computer image processing technique used to improve contrast in images. It differs from ordinary histogram equalization in the respect...

Minimum resolvable contrast (MRC) is a subjective measure of a visible spectrum sensor’s or camera's sensitivity and ability to resolve data. A snapshot...

religions of this set share doctrinal, historical, and geographic overlap that contrast them with Indian religions, Iranian religions, and East Asian religions...

optical filter used by amateur astronomers to improve the details and contrast of celestial objects, either for viewing or for astrophotography. Research...

University in Tokyo, Japan. Lado is considered one of the founders of modern contrastive linguistics, which, as a subdiscipline of applied linguistics, served...

Contrast bath therapy is a form of treatment where a limb or the entire body is immersed in hot (but not boiling) water followed by the immediate immersion...

degrees of velarization, as the difference has not been found to be contrastive in any language. However, the IPA convention of doubling diacritics to...

In linguistics, complementary distribution (as distinct from contrastive distribution and free variation) is the relationship between two different elements...

science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science. It in turn has many branches, collectively referred to...

are contrastive in certain environments may not be contrastive in all environments. In the environments where they do not contrast, the contrast is said...

justified if it is consistent with other beliefs. Foundationalists, by contrast, maintain that the justification of basic beliefs does not depend on other...

iodine-based contrast is injected into the bloodstream and watched as it travels around. Since liquid blood and the vessels are not very dense, a contrast with...

form, contrast is the difference between parts or different instrument sounds. The three types of contrast are rhythmic contrast, melodic contrast, and...

express skeptical attitudes toward non-religious claims. Agnosticism contrasts with theism, which affirms God's existence, and atheism, which denies...

interest in polymathy in the scientific community. His works emphasize the contrast between the polymath and two other types: the specialist and the dilettante...

is a list of current cigarette brands. Factory-made cigarettes, when contrasted to roll-your-own cigarettes, are called tailor mades. Companies portal...

tomography (contrast CT), projectional radiography, and fluoroscopy. Radiocontrast agents are typically iodine, or more rarely barium sulfate. The contrast agents...

the existence of the Americas, Oceania, and Antarctica. It is used to contrast the continents of Africa, Europe, and Asia in the Eastern Hemisphere, previously...

Contrast resolution is the ability to distinguish between differences in intensity in an image. Image contrast can be expressed mathematically as: C =...

Quiché. It is also one of only four Mayan languages to have developed contrastive tone (the others being Yukatek, Mochoʼ and one dialect of Tzotzil). It...

glottalic ejective consonants, implosives can be modified by phonation. Contrastive implosives are found in approximately 13% of the world's languages. In...

Oklahoman. Phrases.org. Archived from the original on 2021-02-07. Chay, H., Contrastive metaphor of Korean and English revealed in 'mouth' and 'tongue' expressions...

as part of its register system, but they are not contrastive. The Bor dialect of Dinka has contrastive modal, breathy, faucalized, and harsh voice in its...

De facto (Latin: lit. 'from fact') and de jure (lit. 'from law') are contrasting concepts, used particularly within law and governance. De facto practices...

anything other than a legally consenting human partner. Paraphilias are contrasted with normophilic ("normal") sexual interests, although the definition...

following areas: a) contrastive linguistics, b) foreign language acquisition, c) translation studies. Sakayan includes into the contrastive discussion, besides...

scenes in contrast to those containing symbols of modernity, such as the scene where Sophie's reverie is interrupted by a war machine. This contrast is part...

Contrast fabric is a sewing term that refers to a fabric piece or embellishment made from a different fabric than the main fabric. The term 'contrast...

side gains or loses any territorial, economic, or political rights. This contrasts with uti possidetis, where each side retains whatever territory and other...

Arabic") of the digit symbols developed, including modern Western 3. In contrast, the Eastern Arabs retained and enlarged that stroke, rotating the digit...

The Contrast are a guitar power pop band based in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom. It comprises David Reid, Chris Corney, and James...

is attracted to water molecules and tends to be dissolved by water. In contrast, hydrophobes are not attracted to water and may seem to be repelled by...

A contrast set is a bounded collection of items, each of which could fill the same slot in a given schema, syntactic structure, or other linguistic environment...

Unicode, allowing for mixed Greek/Coptic text that is stylistically contrastive, as is convention in scholarly works. Writing polytonic Greek requires...

A Life of Contrasts is the autobiography of Diana Mosley, one of the Mitford sisters, that was first published in 1977. In 2002, she released a revised...

oral, or manual intercourse; ejaculation; or fetish play. The term is in contrast with less-explicit softcore pornography. Hardcore pornography usually takes...

also notable for only three songs appearing in the list from 2002. In contrast, as many as nine also appeared in the list from 2004. 2003 in music Billboard...

Digital Fine Contrast is a contrast-enhancing display technology introduced in 2006 by LG Display. It is used in the company's "Flatron" line of TFT monitors...

Dance of the Dragons civil war. It was released on October 25, 2022. In contrast to Fire & Blood, Martin described it as "written in a more encyclopedic...

inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve organically. The term new town refers to...

Assimilation and contrast effects describe cognitive biases in how individuals perceive and evaluate stimuli based on contextual information. The assimilation...

Islands (part of Kiribati), Samoa and Tonga, in the Pacific Ocean. In contrast, American Samoa, Baker Island and Howland Island (part of the United States...

blackness or boldness of the text on the page. A bold font weight creates more contrast on the page, therefore creating more emphasis. Using a bold font is therefore...

/naɪnˈtiːn/ vs 90 /ˈnaɪnti/. However, in dates such as 1999, and when contrasting numbers in the teens and when counting, such as 17, 18, 19, the stress...

The contrast transfer function (CTF) mathematically describes how aberrations in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) modify the image of a sample...

phonemes: Dinka has a rich vowel system, with thirteen phonemically contrastive short vowels. There are seven vowel qualities plus a two-way distinction...

(semi-) identical twins can have the same mother and different fathers. In contrast, a fetus that develops alone in the womb (the much more common case in...

performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time. In contrast to the popular model, which gives precedence to a sole protagonist, an...

to value theory, which studies the nature and types of value, like the contrast between intrinsic and instrumental value. Moral psychology is a related...

with the mallet, it can distribute force over a wide area. This is in contrast to other types of hammers, which concentrate gravity and force in a relatively...

constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics...

Latin Contrasts (also released as Brazilliance Vol. 3) is an album by saxophonist Bud Shank with arrangements by Laurindo Almeida first released on the...

gatherings. It is similar to mantu, which is also popular in Afghanistan. In contrast to aushak, mantu have a meat filling. Aushak Recipe, Food.com, 20 January...

in which a person thrusts their penis into another person's mouth, in contrast to fellatio where the penis is being actively orally excited by a fellator...

a minor character in Homer's Odyssey: Odysseus's disloyal goatherd. In contrast, his fellow slaves, the cowherd Philoetius and swineherd Eumaeus, have...

The African and Ancient Greek blacksmith dieties have been compared and contrasted in scholarly literature. Ptah, patron god of craftsmen and architects...

The Contrast, written in 1787 by Royall Tyler, is an American play in the tradition of the English Restoration comedies of the seventeenth century; it...

complex rather than the Oedipus complex." Karl-Martin Dietz states that in contrast to Hesiod's, in Aeschylus's oeuvre, Prometheus stands for the "Ascent of...

'to love', and σοφία (sophía), 'wisdom'. Western philosophy stands in contrast to other cultural and regional traditions like Eastern philosophy. The...

χάος, romanized: kháos) refers to the division of reality outside or in contrast to the ordered cosmos. As such it refers to a state, place, or time beyond...

continues to survive in some other part of the world. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions in which the species no longer lives anywhere...

aesthetic values, which express positive or negative qualities, such as the contrast between beauty and ugliness. Philosophers debate whether aesthetic properties...

seasons of rainfall (in contrast, for example, to the Mojave's dry summers and cold winters). This creates an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture...

occurrence in colloquial dialects remains minimal. Telugu does not have contrastive stress, and speakers vary on where they perceive stress. Most place it...

following is a chart of potentially contrastive phones (important phonetic distinctions which minimally contrast in some positions with known phonemes;...

Stark Contrast (foaled March 2, 2023) is a Grade I winning American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2026 American Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs. Stark...

l’agni: une analyse contrastive des dialectes sanvi et djuablin [Linguistic conditions for an orthography of Agni: a contrastive analysis of the Sanvi...

include palatalization and labialization as contrastive features. Most languages in this family contrast tense and weak consonants. Tense consonants are...

"hill-language." Kanikkaran has 5 vowels, /a, e, i, o, u/. It demonstrates contrastive vowel length. They use the phoneme /l̩/ occasionally. Kanikkaran has...

leads to a fast, layer-by-layer unsupervised training procedure, where contrastive divergence is applied to each sub-network in turn, starting from the...

to Christopher Ransom contrasting him to his brother Hector to establish the idealised framework of heroic virtue, contrasting Paris' physical indulgence...

any particular spot, which varies with latitude. The strong temperature contrast between polar and tropical air gives rise to the largest scale atmospheric...

or the "horizon of all horizons". In philosophy of mind, the world is contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes...

impact comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy. They stand in contrast to weapons of mass destruction (e.g., nuclear, biological, radiological...

taken from him. This romanticized, domestic view of their relationship contrasts with book 19, in which Briseis herself speaks. As she laments Patroclus's...

High Contrast is an album by Hungarian jazz guitarist Gábor Szabó, produced by Tommy LiPuma and recorded by Bruce Botnick at Capitol Studios, Hollywood...

In Bashkir language, it is an intervocal allophone of /b/, and it is contrastive with /w/: балабыҙ [bɑɫɑˈβɯð] 'our child', балауыҙ [bɑɫɑˈwɯð] 'wax'. A...

structure of internal parts like bones and organs, i.e., anatomy. This is in contrast to physiology, which deals primarily with function. Morphology is a branch...

Dionysia festival in 458 BC. The principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta...

of data and the sharing of network devices, such as printers. The LAN contrasts the wide area network (WAN), which not only covers a larger geographic...

liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning. This contrasts with unauthorized absence (UA) or absence without leave (AWOL /ˈeɪwɒl/)...

It is also known as a playsuit. Its generally short sleeves and legs contrast with the long ones of the adult jumpsuit. Rompers were in many ways the...

population or as a percentage. RNI can be either positive or negative. It contrasts to total population change by ignoring net migration. Rates are CIA World...

world. They also are used widely as bird food or as food for livestock. In contrast, confectionary sunflower seeds are often eaten as a snack food or in baking...

are several contrastive areas so languages may distinguish consonants by articulating them in different areas, but few languages contrast two sounds within...

the rural Southern United States in the early 20th century. It stands in contrast primarily to the urban blues style, especially in the pre-war era. Artists...

term castellano to define the official language of the whole of Spain, in contrast to las demás lenguas españolas (lit. 'the other Spanish languages'). Article...

or of the accumulation of debts from a borrower. Compound interest is contrasted with simple interest, where previously accumulated interest is not added...

development of frequently delivering updates to applications. This is in contrast to a standard or point release development model which uses software versions...

be specified but the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive, or simply for a cleaner transcription. Features of a voiceless palatal...

poems consist of formal speech and are usually learnt word for word, contrasted with narratives that consist of everyday speech, categorised into factual...

"open class" of words (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) or because of "contrastive" or "rhetorical" stress. In basic analysis of a poem by scansion, accents...

Schaffer, J., "Contrastive Knowledge," in Gendler and Hawthorne, eds. (2005), Oxford University Press, pp. 235–71. Schaffer, J., "The Contrast-Sensitivity...

Retrieved 27 March 2023. Villanueva Feliciano, Orville Omar. 2009. A Contrastive analysis of English Influences on the Lexicon of Puerto Rican Spanish...

metacognition as a possible explanation that is not part of the definition. This contrast is relevant since the metacognitive explanation is controversial. Many...

liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. This is in contrast to bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and Chapter 13, which govern the process...

polyandry. In contrast, in sociobiology and zoology, researchers use "polygamy" more broadly to refer to any form of multiple mating. In contrast to polygamy...

"acceptable" as a contrast to "bad" ("The boss approved this, so it is OK to send out"); it can also mean "mediocre" when used in contrast with "good" ("The...

prenasalised /mb/, whereas in Zulu and Xhosa it represents an implosive /ɓ/, in contrast to the digraph ⟨bh⟩ which represents /b/. Finnish uses ⟨b⟩ only in loanwords...

reviews saw it as vulgar and over-sexualized, or criticized the stark contrast) amounted to a temporary setback to Sargent while in France, though it...

contrasts with a non-human chimera in which some cells are human and the other are derived from a non-human organism. (A human chimera, by contrast,...

love of God for [human beings] and of [human beings] for God". This is in contrast to philia, brotherly love, or philautia, self-love, as it embraces a profound...

century, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin wrote Contrasts (1836) that, as the title suggested, contrasted the modern, industrial world, which he disparaged...

possible without being a dictionary in several volumes. Sandro Nielsen: "Contrastive Description of Dictionaries Covering LSP Communication". In: Fachsprache/International...

Some types of knowledge-how do not require a highly developed mind, in contrast to propositional knowledge, and are more common in the animal kingdom....

be a corpse while their partner takes on the role of the necrophile. In contrast to human paraphilias, many cases of animal necrophilia (also known as Davian...

Caniformia is North America and northern Eurasia. Caniformia stands in contrast to the other suborder of Carnivora, the Feliformia ("cat-like" carnivorans)...

hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical aspects...

that the point violates a constraint. To optimize it, he proposed the contrastive divergence minimization algorithm. This algorithm is most often used...

Phase-contrast imaging is a method of imaging that has a range of different applications. It measures differences in the refractive index of different...

cereal or pseudocereal that contains the endosperm, germ, and bran, in contrast to refined grains, which retain only the endosperm. As part of a general...

alongside these other forms, albeit to a lesser degree. Animation is contrasted with live action, although the two do not exist in isolation. Many filmmakers...

they are mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees). Hardwoods are produced...

stanzas. Verse in the uncountable (mass noun) sense refers to poetry in contrast to prose. Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme, the...

section of the dam is stable and independent of any other dam section. (In contrast, sections of an arch dam are not independently stable, and instead rely...

established through that act. "Looking" and "seeing" are traditionally contrasted in a number of ways, although their usage often overlaps. Looking can...

device unit built for such functionality – a NAS appliance or NAS box. NAS contrasts with block-level, storage area networks (SAN) and direct-attached storage...

The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of Nazi Party organizations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in...

Brother, Rich Boy, Kardinal Offishall, No Malice, Phonte, and Elzhi. In contrast to its predecessor, it finds Drake mainly performing over preexisting hip...

usually follows a frightening sight, sound, or otherwise experience. By contrast, terror is usually described as the feeling of dread and anticipation that...

sense, being is unchanging and permanent, in contrast to becoming, which implies change. Another contrast is between being, as what truly exists, and phenomena...

conclusion of fact, such as a fingerprint at the scene of a crime. By contrast, direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly, i.e. without...

corresponding German names Oberwarmberg and Unterwarmberg share the same contrastive relation. Gornja Topla Reber was a village inhabited by Gottschee Germans...

residents, minus factor income paid by residents to non-residents. In contrast to GDP, GNI is not a concept of value added, but a concept of income. GNI...

administrative division and a minor civil division by the US Census Bureau, in contrast to cities and villages, which are fourth-level divisions. Six towns are...

in 5.45×39mm ammunition and is used domestically by the Russian Army in contrast to other AK-100 series rifles. The carbine is produced at Izhmash factories...

those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it stands in contrast to criminal law. Private law, which relates to civil wrongs and quasi-contracts...

the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ or Amoy [ɛ̃]. By contrast, oral vowels are produced without nasalization. Nasalized vowels are vowels...

distribution of weight aboard due to uneven loading or to flooding. By contrast, roll is the dynamic movement from side to side caused by waves. Angle...

hit for Carole King. Palmer is known for his light tenor voice which contrasted with his fellow Steely Dan singer Donald Fagen. Palmer was born and raised...

designed to be held by both hands and braced against the shoulder, in contrast to a handgun, which can be fired being held with a single hand. In the...

severely that they rotate around a nearly horizontal axis. This is in stark contrast to the underhand softball pitch in which the torso remains upright, the...

history of philosophy by Parmenides in his poem On Nature, in which he contrasts it with doxa (opinion). It was revived in the works of 20th-century philosopher...

be specified but the distinction between plosive and affricate is not contrastive, or simply for a cleaner transcription. Features of a voiced palatal...

complementary contrast to the azure color of the sky. (Azure is the complementary color of orange, and thus there is a stark contrast between the two...

refer to the followers of Indian religions collectively as Hindus, in contrast to Mohamedans for groups such as Turks, Mughals and Arabs, who were adherents...

intelligibility; Blench (2012) counts it as a dialect of Turkana. Vowel length is contrastive in Nyangatom, as in dʒík 'completely' vs. dʒíík 'always' Before a pause...

main techniques for perfusion MRI: Dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC): Gadolinium contrast is injected, and rapid repeated imaging (generally gradient-echo...

to 6-abreast seating in a cabin less than 4 metres (13 ft) in width. In contrast, a wide-body aircraft is a larger airliner usually configured with multiple...

retention without the emphasis on dynamic manipulation. Long-term memory, by contrast, retains information for long periods, in some cases indefinitely. During...

an iodine-containing radiopaque contrast media used for X-rays. The drug is given orally and the resulting contrast allows for easy resolution of the...

front flaps which has on its front two symmetrical columns of buttons; by contrast, a single-breasted item has a narrow overlap and only one column of buttons...

lists the contrastive consonant sounds of Unua. There are 16 consonant phonemes for younger Unua speakers and an additional three contrastive velarized...

between young Earth creationism (YEC) and theistic evolution (TE). In contrast to YEC, it is typically more compatible with the scientific consensus on...

computer was originally known as just a "client" or "thick client," in contrast with "thin client", which describes a computer heavily dependent on a server's...

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is the application of ultrasound contrast medium to traditional medical sonography. Ultrasound contrast agents rely...

influenced by sailor tattoos. The style is sometimes called old school and contrasted with "new school" tattoos, which it influenced, and which use a wider...

or vessel. It nearly always features a raised (positive) relief image; contrast with intaglio, which has a negative image. Originally, and still in discussing...

Medieval Europe. The color was less significant than its unmistakable contrast with the brilliant red worn by Richelieu as cardinal. The style "Your Eminence"...

"summer" reflects their early harvest period and short storage life, in contrast to winter squashes. Some Cucurbita species and varieties are cultivated...

David Devant & His Spirit Wife). In 1983, Cherry Red released Volume, Contrast, Brilliance..., a retrospective of the band's early Rough Trade singles...

reinforcing cues. Using brightness contrast (different shades) in addition to color contrast (different hues) To achieve good contrast, conventional wisdom suggests...

critique of modern objectification in relationships with others through the contrast between an "I-Thou" and an "I-It" understanding of the world. Buber's main...

culinary contexts, the term is employed loosely, and not used in perfect contrast to the nutritional category of red meat. Various factors have resulted...

contrast, as in mammography, requires narrow latitude to increase contrast between the different breast tissues or any lesion within them. Contrast ratio...

producing shoes with oversized midsoles, dubbed "maximalist" shoes, in contrast to the minimalist shoe trend that was gaining popularity at the time. The...

snooker. Compare head rail (U.S.); contrast top rail. bottom spin Same as back spin, i.e. screw (UK), draw (US). Contrast top spin. See illustration at spin...

parts of an underlying layer contrasted in colour. It is produced on walls by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface...

considers the development and evolution of a language through history. In contrast, a synchronic approach – from Ancient Greek: συν- ('together') + χρόνος...

Blood-oxygenation-level–dependent imaging, or BOLD-contrast imaging, is a method used in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe the...

contemporary and roots genres, and which suggest a rhythmic, harmonic or textural contrast and synthesis between its modern and ethnic elements. Worldbeat is akin...

free variant of [ʝ] which is considered incorrect by other speakers. Contrastive and obligatory length is marked with /:/. This does not necessarily reflect...

missile guidance method in which a missile contains a radar transceiver (in contrast to semi-active radar homing, which uses only a receiver) and the electronics...

has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which lose their foliage completely during the...

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony and the two city-states Hamburg and Bremen. It contrasts with Southern Germany, Western Germany, and Eastern Germany. Northern...

have been able to maintain their wealth over multiple generations, in contrast with new money whose wealth has been acquired within its own generation...

homoplasies, which are explained as a result of convergent evolution. It is contrasted with monophyly and paraphyly. Although polyphyly may be convenient for...

Reprinted in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 38, 3.4, 1994, 291-303. "Contrastive Explanation", in D. Knowles (ed.), Explanation and its Limits, Cambridge...

is the period of time that is occurring right now. The present is in contrast to the past, the period of time that has already occurred; and the future...

painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of...

the quantitative assessments, yet is very sensitive to the presence of contrast, the measurements are made by varying the paint film thickness, determined...

Bloody Mary is the inclusion of clam broth. The cocktail may also be contrasted with the Michelada, which has similar flavouring ingredients but uses...

type of claim that is known, and how certain the knowledge is. A central contrast is between a posteriori knowledge, which arises from experience, and a...

anterior side is facing down. The supine position is the prone position's contrast, rotated 180°. To move into prone position is to pronate. The word prone...

deplorably oldish, a crooked talker, ill-mannered, uncouth and abominable. In contrast, the Kamba Ramayanam describes her as a lovelorn and beautiful woman, attributing...

realization of a glottal stop, especially intervocalically, but is only rarely contrastive except when gemination is involved. There is no symbol in the International...

(particularly in Classical Arabic) is very conservative, and which preserves as contrastive 28 out of the evident 29 consonantal phonemes. with *s [s] and *š [ʃ]...

any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better...

propagation-based phase contrast, Talbot interferometry, refraction-enhanced imaging, and X-ray interferometry. These methods provide higher contrast compared to...

life" – and, so too, the systematic transition to the Realphilosophie. In contrast to the first, logical part of Hegel's system, the second, real-philosophical...

Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by John Wiley & Sons since 2006 and by Hindawi Publishing Corporation...

uses clear strong lines sometimes of varied width and no hatching, while contrast is downplayed as well. Cast shadows are often illuminated, and the style...

mnemonic symbols or both to represent a limited number of concepts, in contrast to true writing systems, which record the language of the writer. In 2022...

/ʌ/ are short. Nasal vowels are relatively rare, but contrastive: /lu/ 'a type of hot wind' contrasts with /lũ/ 'hair', and /kʰɪɖɑ/ 'make one play' – with...

electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The...

consonants, but nasalization is non-contrastive. Most Tuvan vowels in word-initial syllables have a low pitch and do not contrast significantly with short and...

and Ogden along with many smaller communities. The Wasatch Front is contrasted with the Wasatch Back region on the east side of the mountain range. The...

the ethno-cultural self-designation of the Indo-Iranians. It stood in contrast to nearby outsiders, whom they designated as non-Aryan (*an-āryā). In ancient...

social group constituted by higher status members of the middle class, in contrast to the lower middle class. The definition is debated. Max Weber controversially...

methods including: Hopfield learning rule, Boltzmann learning rule, Contrastive Divergence, Wake Sleep, Variational Inference, Maximum Likelihood, Maximum...

q ) = D ( q , p ) . {\displaystyle D^{*}(p,q)=D(q,p).} When we wish to contrast D {\displaystyle D} against D ∗ {\displaystyle D^{*}} , we refer to D {\displaystyle...

that resembles a typical line of running text, hence the name. They are contrasted with lining figures (also called titling or modern figures), which are...

authority, stability, and structure, he represents order and discipline in contrast to the intuitive, nurturing qualities of The Empress. The Emperor is associated...

usually to the exclusion of access by outsiders. The term is used in contrast to public networks, such as the Internet, but uses the same technology...

contexts, "special effect" is used as a synonym of "practical effect", in contrast to "visual effects" which are created in post-production through photographic...

Janardhanan, Sunitha, Ilavarasi, Aboobacker, and Kaviyoor Ponnamma. The film contrasts traditional and modern values following two brothers Raghavan (Mammootty)...

(archived June 18, 2008) Renoir, Alain (1983). "The Old English Ruin: Contrastive Structure and Affective Impact". In Green, Martin (ed.). The Old English...

('famous'), celebre ('[that] he/she celebrates'), and celebré ('I celebrated') contrast only by stress. There is some minor variance among Spanish dialects; a...

can contrast in length. While all vowels are phonetically nasalized after a nasal consonant, only two nasal vowels are reported to be contrastive: /ɛ̃...

against minimalism. The philosophy can be summarized as "more is more", contrasting with the minimalist principle of "less is more". The term maximalism...

phonological status as contrastive phonemes lacks strong evidence; cases where they were previously reported to have contrastive status have failed corroboration...

close together or side by side. This is often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences, etc. Juxtaposition in literary...

The term was coined in 1960 by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline. In contrast to biorobots and androids, the term cyborg applies to a living organism...

create a sharp contrast. The sky suggests that there is a solar eclipse occurring. A dead, uprooted tree's dark roots and branches contrast with the sky...

realized as [riakaɾ̃ã]). Vowel length is contrastive. Stress in Tanimuca-Retuarã is phonemic, or contrastive. Other East Tucanoan languages, of which...

term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot be directly observed. Kant was heavily...

branch of Bilateria, with all other bilaterians placed in Nephrozoa. It contrasts with the Xenambulacraria hypothesis, which instead posits that Xenacoelomorpha...

most general and abstract aspects of reality. The individual sciences, by contrast, examine more specific and concrete features and restrict themselves to...

います が… ame wa futte imasu ga… The rain is falling, but… Because of its contrastive nature, the topic cannot be undefined. ＊誰か *dareka は wa 本 hon を o 読んで...

as well as other spiritual or supernatural beings and forces. This is contrasted with immanence, where a god is said to be fully present in the physical...

use veal as a primary ingredient. Veal is the meat of young calves, in contrast to the beef from older cattle. Though veal can be produced from a calf...

procession of the bride to the groom's house in which the god is addressed, in contrast to the Epithalamium, which is sung at the nuptial threshold. Hymen's name...

mainly published in the areas of corpus linguistics, learner language, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and lexicography. Sylviane Granger completed...

eastern side of central Mexico's mountain chains, all having summer rains in contrast to the Mediterranean climate of other chaparral formations. Look up chaparral...

Figure-ground contrast, in the context of map design, is a property of a map in which the map image can be partitioned into a single feature or type of...

tissue tumors, meaning that they arise in connective tissues. This is in contrast to secondary (or "metastatic") connective tissue tumors, which occur when...

those created by the original author or developer of the world". Canon is contrasted with or used as the basis for derivative works, including fan fiction...

2021, Hinton co-authored a widely cited paper proposing a framework for contrastive learning in computer vision. The technique involves pulling together...

Cavendish gravitational constant, denoted by the capital letter G. It is contrastable with (and mathematically relatable to) the Einstein gravitational constant...

when it began to be considered a continental European "Golden Age" in contrast to the violence of the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. The Belle Époque...

Interior. These regions are the largest subdivisions of the country. In contrast to the administrative divisions of the provinces of Thailand, the regions...

Darren Aronofsky (in his feature directorial debut). Pi was filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film. The title refers to the mathematical constant...

individuals can maintain operational security. This method stands in contrast to the live drop, which involves a face-to-face exchange. Spies and their...

Rousseau's criticism of "modern liberalism and Enlightenment". Thus a contrast between "culture" and "civilization" is usually implied in these authors...

1861, and sold it for $4 to The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. In contrast to the lyrics of the soldiers' song, her version links the Union cause...

without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level. This is in contrast to the much smaller lobule, which is a clear division only visible under...

Scandinavian lands during the Viking Age. The status of slave (þræll, þēow) contrasts with that of the freeman (karl, ceorl) and the nobleman (jarl, eorl)....

or Greater Syrtis (Latin: Syrtis Major; Ancient Greek: Σύρτις μεγάλη; contrasting with Syrtis Minor on the coast of Tunisia). The Gulf of Sidra or Sirte...

Contrast is a puzzle-platform game developed by Compulsion Games for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Nvidia Shield...

rests with the public (people), typically through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy or a direct democracy. Although a republic is most often...

certain privileges, usually including land held as a tenant or fief. In contrast, fealty (fidelitas) is sworn, unconditional loyalty to a monarch. In fully...

on the set and simultaneously record or broadcast a scene. It is often contrasted with a single-camera setup, which uses one camera. Generally, the two...

(Wiktionary) Anaang at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Udondata, Joseph. "A Contrastive Study of English and Annang Structural Patterns". EA Journals. Ufere...

views of spirit vary between different belief systems, when spirit is contrasted with the soul, the former is often seen as a basic natural force, principle...

melancholia. Consequently, he became known as "the weeping philosopher" in contrast to the ancient atomist philosopher Democritus, who was known as "the laughing...

bienne, called pale flax. The plants called "flax" in New Zealand are, by contrast, members of the genus Phormium. The term 'flax' can refer to both the plant...

others, especially to the sick and needy. This facet of her character contrasted with her daredevil ways and helped to make her a celebrated frontier figure...

Nancowry tehsil. The name is also spelt as "Bada Inak" ("Greater Inak"; contrasted with Chota Inak or "Little Inak"). According to the 2011 census of India...

that can be easily pitched with a succinctly stated premise. It can be contrasted with low concept, which is more concerned with character development and...

is a crescent-shaped fibrocartilaginous anatomical structure that, in contrast to an articular disc, only partly divides a joint cavity. In humans, menisci...

the player is dealt. In baccarat chemin de fer and baccarat banque, by contrast, both players can make choices. The winning odds are in favour of the bank...

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is a purported form of kidney damage in which there has been recent exposure to medical imaging contrast material without...

phonemically contrastive in Northwest Caucasian (e.g. Adyghe), Athabaskan, and Salishan language families, among others. This contrast is reconstructed...

Phonemes: Contrastive Analysis of Common Standard Persian and English Consonants in Context-Based Corpora". Frequency System of Phonemes: Contrastive Analysis...

and powers of the Pope in matters related to civil state governance. It contrasts with Gallicanism, the belief that popular civil authority – often represented...

or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed...

phonemically. Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead...

to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. In contrast a private university is usually owned and operated by a private corporation...

Drubea, Numèè, and Kwenyii languages are tonal. Other than phonemically contrastive tone, typological features in New Caledonian languages that are typically...

performing malevolent ceremonies and using manipulative magic in stark contrast to the beneficial works of medicine people. The legend of skin-walkers...

the Javanese script Catalan language (ISO 639 alpha-2 language code) Contrastive analysis, the systematic study of a pair of languages Conversation analysis...

Shimazu were identified as one of the tozama or outsider daimyō families in contrast with the fudai or insider clans which were hereditary vassals or allies...

exercise, and by practitioners of yoga as part of an asana regimen. In contrast to the split squat exercise, during the lunge the rear leg is also activated...

places both the engine and drive wheels at the rear of the vehicle. In contrast to the RMR layout, the center of mass of the engine is between the rear...

When newcomers look to fill an open office, voters tend to compare and contrast the candidates' qualifications, positions on political issues, and personal...

of vexillology, the word "deface" carries no negative connotations, in contrast to general usage. It simply indicates a differentiation of the flag from...

presents a steep rocky eastern face overlooking the Sound of Raasay, contrasting with gentler grassy slopes to the west. The Storr is a prime example...

class" between the peasantry and aristocracy. They are traditionally contrasted with the proletariat by their wealth, political power, and education,...

stamens to petals, within angiosperms (flowering plants). This is in contrast to connation, the fusion among a single whorl. Little, R. John; Jones,...

manufactures a product for another company (its customer) to sell; this is in contrast to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) which manufactures a product...

languages, the vowel harmony is regressive instead of progressive. A contrastive pair includes /uraŋ/ "person" vs. /uræŋ/ [yræŋ] "shrimp". Ulumandaʼ at...

instead of an o. The suffix -ka is the compositional contrastive subject marker used on nouns. Contrastive subjects either designate a kind of focus, thus...

and is thus knowingly performed or heard by the characters. This is in contrast to non-diegetic music, which is incidental music or a score that is heard...

phonemes, seven contrastive nasal vowels, and as many as forty-five consonants. Amongst them are ejectives, implosives and contrastive voiceless sonorants...

contrastive gemination of consonants, which is generally indicated in orthography by a double letter: ⟨nɑ́ttih⟩ "woman". Caddo has three contrastive vowel...

limits. The limits of the ITCZ vary according to the land–sea heating contrast and it is thought that the northern extent of the monsoon in South Asia...

The principle of nonvacuous contrast is a logical or methodological principle which requires that a genuine predicate never refer to everything, or to...

In contrast, civil law systems are typically more tolerant of allowing individual officials to exercise both powers. One example of this contrast is the...

most commonly associated with the disease. Its clinical presentation contrasts to that of "typical" pneumonia. A variety of microorganisms can cause...

mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves") and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves") are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark...

same music. Contrasting song forms include through-composed, with new music written for every stanza, and ternary form, with a contrasting central section...

Weak nouns are nouns that follow a weak inflection paradigm, in contrast with strong nouns. They are present in several Germanic languages. Modern English...

of location in determining the value of real estate Anaphora Diacope Contrastive focus reduplication Arthur Quinn, Figures of Speech, Gibbs M. Smith,...

equivalents and neologisms given in the Gerlyver Kernewek Kemmyn entail a contrastive lexicology that is at odds with traditional practice as attested in the...

heat a single small- to medium-sized area. This type of heater can be contrasted with central heating, which distributes heat to multiple areas. All space...

style guide says "Users log in to a file server (not log on to)...". By contrast, Microsoft's style guides traditionally suggested the opposite and prescribed...

/o/, and /a/. Contrastive vowel length is rare in Berber languages. Tuareg languages had previously been reported to have contrastive vowel length, but...

contrast with partial differential equations (PDEs) which may be with respect to more than one independent variable, and, less commonly, in contrast with...

at the actor who is performing the sex act. This style of filming is in contrast to having a separate, third-person camera crew filming all the action....

colour-pointed cat distinguished by a silky coat, deep blue eyes, and contrasting white "gloves" on each paw. The breed name is derived from Birmanie,...

accompanied by inflamed patches in the nearby lobules of the lungs. It is often contrasted with lobar pneumonia; but, in clinical practice, the types are difficult...

naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth, often during sleep (contrast with mucopurulent discharge). Rheum dries and gathers as a crust in the...

differ in the three-dimensional orientations of their atoms in space. This contrasts with structural isomers, which share the same molecular formula, but the...

[ˌkjaroˈskuːro]; lit. 'light-dark') is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical...

 42, 44. Egurtzegi, Ander (2015-06-30). "Different distributions of contrastive vowel nasalization in Basque". Loquens. 2 (1): e017. doi:10.3989/loquens...

Henricus contrastana, the contrasting henricus moth, is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found from Michigan and Connecticut to Florida...

facing the direction of the barrel.[citation needed] Drum magazines are contrasted with more common box-type magazines, which have a lower capacity and store...

majority tracing their origins to Austronesian and Melanesian lineages. In contrast to pribumi are Indonesians with known foreign ancestry, such as Chinese...

act of rediscovering knowledge from within oneself. This stands in stark contrast to the opposing doctrine known as empiricism, which posits that all knowledge...

gay males may define oral sex as their main form of sexual activity. By contrast, lesbian pairings commonly view oral sex or fingering as resulting in virginity...

squares. Traditionally, houndstooth uses black and white, although other contrasting colour combinations may be used. The oldest Bronze Age houndstooth textiles...

of a person with a better claim to the position in question. This is in contrast to an heir apparent, whose claim on the position cannot be displaced in...

conducting intensive calculations, or communicating with an external device. In contrast to a progress bar, a throbber does not indicate how much of the action...

into -aCC (also shared by Makassarese). The latter change has created contrastive gemination in the language, such as tabu 'mosque drum' vs. tabbu 'sugar...

politically and religiously conservative direction. They are typically contrasted with the Young Hegelians (Hegelian Left), who interpreted Hegel's political...

the participants are fully aware of the risks. This is often viewed in contrast to safe, sane, and consensual which generally holds that only activities...

1999. Stig Johansson's research interests included English grammar, contrastive analysis and learner language analysis. He made a lasting contribution...

Docile Don" due to his preference for conciliation over violence, in stark contrast to his successors. Born in Villalba, Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily...

external devices such as a monitor, mouse, keyboard, and speakers. By contrast, software is a set of written instructions that can be stored and run by...

was used in the reconstruction of Proto-Semitic since it preserves as contrastive 28 out of the evident 29 consonantal phonemes. The earliest forms of...

replacement for the ECB 40 tournament, which ran from 2010 to 2013. In contrast to its 40-over predecessor, the number of overs per innings was set at...

Egyptian history. Though archaeological evidence of the time is very scant, contrasting data from the First and Third Dynasties indicates important institutional...

autumn and in the spring, the colour of the larch leaves would change, contrasting with the deep green of the pine forest. The short duration of the effect...

languages. * [ə] is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive. Thus both it and [e] are represented with ⟨e⟩. Vowel length is shown...

ritualistic killings featuring overtly religious apocalyptic symbolism. In contrast to the previous five seasons, Season 6 was met with negative reviews. On...

decision-making) and deduce valid inferences (referred to as automated reasoning). In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct...

positions of authority regardless of their qualifications. This is in contrast to a meritocracy, in which appointments are made based on merit. Politically...

the variance is small, the data in the set is clustered. Dispersion is contrasted with location or central tendency, and together they are the most used...

(value - 0.5) * (tan ((contrast + 1) * PI/4) ) + 0.5; where value is the input color value in the 0..1 range and brightness and contrast are in the −1..1 range...

immense beauty who are structured in societies similar to that of humans. In contrast to jinn, the parīs usually feature in tales involving supernatural elements...

camera, made possible by the then-new miniaturized tape format. This was in contrast to the larger, shoulder mounted cameras made before the creation of Video8...

distributing access rights throughout the system. A capability-based system, in contrast, is designed with that goal in mind. Capabilities achieve their objective...

the editor of the Nordic Journal of English Studies and co-editor of Contrastive Pragmatics - A Cross-Disciplinary Journal. Aijmer was elected as a member...

or other Lewis base. The term is used in the pharmaceutical industry in contrast to salt-based formulations like hydrochlorides. The amine is often an alkaloid...

table below. Stress usually falls on the first syllable, although it is contrastive in some verb forms, e.g. /əˈŋati/ "I bury a man" vs. /ˈəŋati/ "I hurry"...

Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) is a measure used to determine image quality. CNR is similar to the metric signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), but subtracts a term...

supplanted Old English's dative and accusative. When the two terms are contrasted, they differ in the ability of a word in the oblique case to function...

engine is also called a compression-ignition engine (or CI engine). This contrasts with engines using spark plug-ignition of the air-fuel mixture, such as...

reflects strong Mayan and Spanish influences and continues to be defined as a contrast between poor Mayan villagers in the rural highlands, and the urbanized...

quantitative transitions without abrupt changes or discontinuities. In contrast, categorical theories or models explain variation using qualitatively different...

yes/no question: "Won't you be here tomorrow?" Yes–no questions are in contrast with non-polar wh-questions. The latter are also called content questions...

infrastructure of the Internet, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). In contrast to IPv4, which defined an IP address as a 32-bit value, IPv6 addresses...

vs. /l̥a33/ ‘to fall down’ All vowels can be creaky vowels, which are contrastive. Sila diphthongs are /ɤi/, /ai/, /ao/, /oa/. /i/ vs. /e/ vs. /ɛ/: /pi33/...

device, or more colloquially, playing a game remotely from a cloud. It contrasts with traditional means of gaming, wherein a game is run locally on a user's...

derogatory reference to a German-speaking Jew in Israel. In Germany, they were contrasted with their Eastern European counterparts, the Ostjuden. There are several...

staging and follow-up of disease. Compared to CT, MRI provides better contrast in images of soft tissues, e.g. in the brain or abdomen. However, it may...

mission, or road trip. The two typically are males with contrasting personalities. The contrast is sometimes accentuated by an ethnic difference between...

behavior. Unit testing describes tests that are run at the unit-level to contrast testing at the integration or system level. Unit testing, as a principle...

B .... In attempting to distinguish between identificational versus contrastive features in proverbs or between nonoppositional or oppositional proverbs...

contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, where participants are eliminated after...

administration of a contrast agent into a vein. The specific imaging technique being employed will determine the characteristics of an appropriate contrast agent to...

a surface where light from a light source is blocked by an object. In contrast, shade occupies the three-dimensional volume behind an object with light...

state-owned farm or agricultural enterprise in the Soviet Union. It is usually contrasted with kolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. Just as the members of...

called "Greek-Catholic" to highlight the "Greek" origin of the rite as contrasted with the Latin Church of the west. Despite using the word Greek, the vast...

origin, contrast with Spanish lodo and asar, of Latin origin; whereas Catalan filosa "spinning wheel" and templa "temple", of Latin origin, contrast with...

objects to be equal if they have the same external properties. It stands in contrast to the concept of intensionality, which is concerned with whether the internal...

and national liberation movements. Left-wing nationalism often stands in contrast to right-wing politics and national conservatism. Terms such as nationalist...

a trio of sisters of the same name) from Slavic folklore who has two contrasting roles. In some narratives, she is described as a repulsive or ferocious-looking...

number of Lunda dialects are represented in Namibia. Vowel length is contrastive. /w/ may also be heard as a bilabial glide [β̞]. Lunda at Ethnologue...

z_{2}(x)} , and maximizes the mutual information between these. This contrastive InfoMax objective is a lower bound to the InfoMax objective. Infomax...

chambers. Modern angiography is performed by injecting a radio-opaque contrast agent into the blood vessel and imaging using X-ray based techniques such...

Quantitative phase contrast microscopy or quantitative phase imaging are the collective names for a group of microscopy methods that quantify the phase...

Century placed the song 59th (out of 365). The song's "anthemic chorus contrasted with the verses' desperate narrative" portrays a Vietnam veteran's alienation...

the larynx vibrating. Phonologically, it is a type of phonation, which contrasts with other states of the larynx, but some object that the word phonation...

commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy). As a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with...

proper includes villages located within administrative boundaries. In contrast, the City/town proper column lists only population of the main city/town...

(played farther from the previous bass note). Notes are anticipated, in contrast to laid-back blues where notes are behind the beat; this creates the higher...

movement began in 1910 with de Chirico, whose dreamlike works with sharp contrasts of light and shadow often had a vaguely threatening, mysterious quality...

nutritionist even without any training, education, or professional license, in contrast to a dietitian, who has a university degree, professional license, and...

has a system of 24 consonant phonemes: Voicing is not contrastive, but most consonants contrast palatalization. A rhotic consonant /r/ may appear in recent...

The Type A and Type B personality theory associates two contrasting personality types with different incidence of coronary heart disease. According to...

/ɑ/. As many other Limburgish dialects, the Venlo dialect features a contrastive pitch accent, with minimal pairs such speule /ˈspøːlə/ 'to rinse' vs...

Klicka, J.; Lanyon, S. M.; Lovette, I. J. (2013). "Going to extremes: Contrasting rates of diversification in a recent radiation of New World passerine...

There the two eldest girls experience love and heartbreak that tries the contrasting characters of both. On his deathbed, Henry Dashwood makes his son, John...

succeed their parent as the ruler of a state. Primogeniture stands in contrast to shared inheritance among all or some children, any illegitimate child...

restricts convenient access to non-approved applicants or content. This is in contrast to an open platform, wherein consumers generally have unrestricted access...

Rio Branco. There is no tonal system in Djeoromitxí and accent is not contrastive. Morphophonological processes are rare. Syllable structure follows a...

the opcode is directly applied to circuitry via an input signal bus. In contrast, in CPUs, the opcode is the portion of a machine language instruction that...

(September 2018). "Immediate Mild Reactions to CT with Iodinated Contrast Media: Strategy of Contrast Media Readministration without Corticosteroids". Radiology...

Hebrew Bible, it is a form of address; or it contrasts humans with God and the angels; or it contrasts foreign nations (like the Sasanian Empire and...

characteristic is that it is unleavened. Naan from the Indian subcontinent, by contrast, is a yeast-leavened bread, as is kulcha. Like breads around the world...

the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, and more broadly to describe characteristics...

register tone, not contour tone as in Mandarin Chinese. Register tone contrasts are a relatively recent innovation of the North Huon Gulf languages. While...

called "sneakers", hacker clubs, red teams, or tiger teams. The modern contrast between white hat and black hat derives from the convention in Western...

an objective standard of behaviour expected of a defendant. It may be contrasted with strictly liable offences, which do not consider states of mind in...

gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). They are contrasted with nonvascular plants such as mosses and green algae. Scientific names...

similar to that of many other Indo-Aryan languages. An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below. Vowels in native words are: There...

operating system kernel, kernel extensions, and most device drivers. In contrast, user space is the memory area where application software, daemons, and...

of humanity and is not just a blind rejection. Misanthropy is usually contrasted with philanthropy, which refers to the love of humankind and is linked...

man is expected to maintain composure. The straight man is a foil, a contrasting character to the funny man. The direct contribution to the comedy a straight...

Differential interference contrast microscopy Fluorescence interference contrast microscopy Interference reflection microscopy Phase contrast microscopy Barr,...

distinct reasons, providing separate support for the conclusion. They contrast with dependent premises, which only work in combination. Other distinctions...

oriented along the long axis of the vehicle, from front to back. This is in contrast to a transverse engine, where the crankshaft runs from side to side. Although...

(평인; 平人). Sangmin was also sometimes used to describe innocent people, in contrast to criminals. The term sangmin was used as an informal or legal designation...

Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare. Ken Wahl as Don Jardian Cheryl Ladd as Deborah...

descendants Icelandic and Faroese. It is also usually thought that a contrastive prosodic feature—generally reconstructed as a pitch or tonal distinction—was...

edit. The score, composed by Jon Brion, was designed around a stylized contrast, blending orchestral and rock textures while also drawing on improvisation...

term is commonly used to refer to members of unorganized street gangs. By contrast, members of organized crime gangs are called geondal (건달) or jopok (Korean: 조폭;...

Caprinae, a taxonomic subfamily that includes both goats and sheep, but contrasts with other animal subfamily types such as Bovinae, Antilopinae, and other...

language) Dialect awareness instruction may use the contrastive analysis method to compare and contrast language features. Dialect awareness instruction...

anarchists, and other perceived enemies. It is a subgenre of punk that contrasts sharply with the anti-authoritarian and frequently leftist ideas prevalent...

Sharanawa. Pike and Scott (1962) indicate that [h] is velar. [ʃ] and [ʂ] are contrastive only when preceding [a] or [ã]. Sharanawa is a tonal language. It distinguishes...

Throughout his reign he would pursue a liberal course in politics in contrast to Charles XIV John, instituting reforms and improving ties between Sweden...

internal reproductive system and/or external genitalia. The term was contrasted with "true hermaphroditism" (now known as ovotesticular syndrome), a condition...

pronounced "step wagon") is a minivan produced by Honda since 1996. In contrast to the Odyssey and also the Stream, it sports a taller, more upright greenhouse...

the carboxypenicillins and the ureidopenicillins. Aminopenicillins, in contrast, do not have activity against Pseudomonas species, as their positively...

stories emphasized her Soviet origin, portraying her superiors as evil and contrasting her with more noble American superheroes. Black Widow's status as a leading...

Janet Jackson. It is the sequel to the 1996 film The Nutty Professor. In contrast to the previous film, subplots centered on the parents of protagonist Sherman...

inference rules closely related to the "natural" way of reasoning. This contrasts with Hilbert-style systems, which instead use axioms as much as possible...

reasons. To better understand the concept, see Nonbuilding structure for contrast. Buildings serve several societal needs: occupancy, primarily as shelter...

representing the heroin chic era, a more alternative and minimalist look that contrasted with the glamour of the supermodels of the late 1980s. Kirsty Hume was...

are many fundamentally different ways that contrast is produced, called "image contrast mechanisms". Contrast can arise from position-to-position differences...

in studio portrait photography and cinematography; it is also used in contrast with butterfly lighting It can be achieved using one light and a reflector...

Many have attributed the Paris syndrome to the contrast between the idealization of Paris and the reality of Paris. Paris syndrome (in Japanese: パリ症候群...

distinguished it from land subinfeudated by him to others as sub-tenants. In contrast, the entire territory controlled by a monarch both directly and indirectly...

This intentional unpleasantness and personal control over a dungeon contrasts to the modern prison, which provides a civil function. The word dungeon...

dictionary will be found in a single-field dictionary. Sandro Nielsen: "Contrastive Description of Dictionaries Covering LSP Communication". In: Fachsprache/International...

to trade unions are also common positions. Economic liberalism can be contrasted with protectionism because of its support for free trade and an open economy...

The rings, also known as still rings (in contrast to flying rings), is an artistic gymnastics apparatus and the event that uses it. It is traditionally...

values of commonality and collectivism for social unity and economic good—contrasting with perceived European ideals of the universal rights of all individuals...

support, that enables phase detection auto focus. Contrast-detection autofocus is achieved by measuring contrast (vision) within a sensor field through the lens...

Sarcomeres are added in series, as for example in dilated cardiomyopathy (in contrast to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a type of concentric hypertrophy, where...

supplements, in chelation therapy to remove toxic metals from the body, as contrast agents in MRI scanning, in manufacturing using homogeneous catalysts, in...

or hatchback bike. The cycle rickshaw is human-powered by pedaling, in contrast to the classic rickshaw, pulled by a person on foot, and distinct from...

disciplines, such as engineering and medicine. Applied science is often contrasted with basic science, which is focused on advancing scientific theories...

virelay, and the sestina. In popular music, the refrain or chorus may contrast with the verse melodically, rhythmically, and harmonically; it may assume...

In metaphysics, particulars or individuals are usually contrasted with universals. Universals concern features that can be exemplified by various different...

phenomena are analysed as a single aspiration contrast. The places and manners of articulation which allow contrastive aspiration vary by language; e.g. Sindhi...

region of Saudi Arabia. It can be undertaken at any time of the year, in contrast to the Ḥajj (/hædʒ/, lit. 'pilgrimage'), which can be undertaken only during...

and dogs, it is the standard place to measure the animal's height. In contrast, cattle are often measured to the top of the hips. The term (pronounced...

justly be considered, were the history of these. This theory is usually contrasted with people's history, which emphasises the life of the masses creating...

actually present. These are the two kinds of errors in a binary test, in contrast to the two kinds of correct result (a true positive and a true negative)...

fusil – meaning a type of flintlock musket – the term has been used in contrasting ways in different countries and at different times, including soldiers...

Complex training, also known as contrast training or post-activation potentiation training, involves the integration of strength training and plyometrics...

action in question, instead of being brought about by a previous action. (Contrast this with the expressions "by itself" or "per se".) It is a term of art...

Refractive index contrast, in an optical waveguide, such as an optical fiber, is a measure of the relative difference in refractive index of the core and...

disabilities. It consists of a usually blue square overlaid in white (or in contrasting colours) with a stylized image of a person in a wheelchair. It is maintained...

as such are organelles found in plant cells. They are non-pigmented, in contrast to other plastids such as the chloroplast. Lacking photosynthetic pigments...

Aʼingae sound system. As already seen, there are contrastive prenasalized consonants as well as contrastive nasal counterparts to all monophthongs and diphthongs...

thereby mimicking the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. This is in contrast to conventional flat-panel displays, which require additional energy to...

improvement retailer, serving both the general public and tradespeople. In contrast, its main competitor Wickes primarily caters to trade professionals. Where...

Maite, Suárez, Susana Doval and González Álvarez, Elsa. Forthcoming. Contrastive Discourse Analysis. Functional and Corpus Perspectives. London: Equinox...