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  2. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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    Sentence diagram. A sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a sentence. The term "sentence diagram" is used more when teaching written language, where sentences are diagrammed. The model shows the relations between words and the nature of sentence structure and can be used as a tool to help recognize which ...

  3. Contact force - Wikipedia

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    Contact forces are ubiquitous and are responsible for most visible interactions between macroscopic collections of matter. Pushing a car or kicking a ball are some of the everyday examples where contact forces are at work. In the first case the force is continuously applied to the car by a person, while in the second case the force is delivered ...

  4. Subordination (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Subordination (linguistics) In linguistics, subordination ( abbreviated variously SUBORD, SBRD, SUBR or SR) is a principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units. While the principle is applicable in semantics, morphology, and phonology, most work in linguistics employs the term "subordination" in the context of syntax, and that ...

  5. Point of contact - Wikipedia

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    Point of contact. A point of contact ( POC) or single point of contact ( SPOC) is a person or a department serving as the coordinator or focal point of information concerning an activity or program. A POC is used in many cases where information is time-sensitive and accuracy is important. For example, they are used in WHOIS databases.

  6. Venn diagram - Wikipedia

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    A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science. A Venn diagram uses simple closed ...

  7. Surface tension - Wikipedia

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    Notice that small movement in the body may cause the object to sink. As the angle of contact decreases, surface tension decreases. The horizontal components of the two F s arrows point in opposite directions, so they cancel each other, but the vertical components point in the same direction and therefore add up to balance F w. The object's ...

  8. Adherent point - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, an adherent point (also closure point or point of closure or contact point) [1] of a subset of a topological space is a point in such that every neighbourhood of (or equivalently, every open neighborhood of ) contains at least one point of A point is an adherent point for if and only if is in the closure of thus. This definition ...

  9. Place of articulation - Wikipedia

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    In articulatory phonetics, the place of articulation (also point of articulation) of a consonant is a location along the vocal tract where its production occurs. [1] : 10 It is a point where a constriction is made between an active and a passive articulator. Active articulators are organs capable of voluntary movement which create the ...