posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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(noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
(noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
(noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
(noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
(noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
(noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
(noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
(noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
(noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
(noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
(noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
(noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
(noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
(noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
(noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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(noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
positioning | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
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positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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(noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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(noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
positivist | (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
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positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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(noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
(noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
(noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
(noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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