Metaknowledge ( knowledge about knowledge ) -

In telecommunication, a functional profile is a standardization document that characterizes the requirements of a standard or group of standards, and specifies how the options and ambiguities in the standard ( s ) should be interpreted or implemented to ( a ) provide a particular information technology function, ( b ) provide for the development of uniform, recognized tests, and ( c ) promote interoperability among different network elements and terminal equipment that implement a specific profile.

The quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how under-damped an oscillator or resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency.

Another example of deviance from the source material is how Shakespeare characterizes the rule of Antony and Cleopatra.

A given spectrometer has a spectral bandwidth that characterizes how monochromatic the light is.

A head-related transfer function ( HRTF ) is a response that characterizes how an ear receives a sound from a point in space ; a pair of HRTFs for two ears can be used to synthesize a binaural sound that seems to come from a particular point in space.

This argument Vandekerckhove characterizes as " interesting " but " too vague " in its description of how tolerant an employee should be of an employer's shortcomings.

In physics and engineering the quality factor or Q factor is a dimensionless parameter that describes how under-damped an oscillator or resonator is, or equivalently, characterizes a resonator's bandwidth relative to its center frequency.

In other words, it characterizes how well a wave can interfere with itself at a different time.

In solid-state physics, the electron mobility characterizes how quickly an electron can move through a metal or semiconductor, when pulled by an electric field.

Als characterizes the division as " good and evil ", and notes how Angelou's witness of the evil in her society, " generally directed at black women ", shaped Angelou's young life and informed her views into adulthood.

Syntactic ambiguity characterizes sentences which can be interpreted in different ways depending solely on how one perceives syntactic connections between wors and arranges them into phrases.

Etendue or étendue (" ay-ten-due ") is a property of pencils of rays in an optical system, which characterizes how " spread out " light is in area and angle.

Given how difficult all concerned found discussing the details of the crimes at issue, their language characterizes the questionable activities repeatedly without ever specifying the actions themselves.

Narrative emotion studies how " emoting by proxy " characterizes the experience of attending to a narrative.

Most of our knowledge of him is derived from Plato, who characterizes him as vain and arrogant.

The Hippias minor discusses the deficiency of our knowledge, and characterizes Hippias as ridiculously vain.

In his essay, Against Method, Paul Feyerabend characterizes science as " an essentially anarchic enterprise " and argues emphatically that science merits no exclusive monopoly over " dealing in knowledge " and that scientists have never operated within a distinct and narrowly self-defined tradition.

But Buffier does not claim for these truths of common sense the absolute certainty which characterizes the knowledge we have of our own existence or the logical deductions we make from our thoughts ; they possess merely the highest probability, and the man who rejects them is to be considered a fool, though he is not guilty of a contradiction.

" That capacity " is inherent in the knowledge of cultural schemas that characterizes all minimally competent members of society.

Irenaeus characterizes the Gnostics as the pneumatici who have a perfect knowledge of God, and have been initiated into the mysteries of Achamoth.

He characterizes thoughts he considers without sensory content, such as mathematical or logical thoughts, as free deeds.

Kaplan also characterizes directly referential expressions as those that refer without the mediation of a Fregean Sinn, or as those whose only contribution to content are their referents.

Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

The current version of the DSM characterizes a mental disorder as " a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual is associated with present distress ... or disability ... or with a significant increased risk of suffering.

" One commentary characterizes the remark as making economics an approach rather than a subject matter but with great specificity as to the " choice process and the type of social interaction that analysis involves.

: This theory characterizes international and municipal law as a single legal system with municipal law subordinate to international law.

Intrinsic evaluation considers an isolated NLP system and characterizes its performance mainly with respect to a gold standard result, pre-defined by the evaluators.

The view presented in Seinfeld is arguably consistent with the philosophy of nihilism, the idea that life is pointless, and from which arises a feeling of the absurd that characterizes the show's ironic humor.

He then characterizes a number of philosophies that describe and attempt to deal with this feeling of the absurd, by Heidegger, Jaspers, Shestov, Kierkegaard, and Husserl.

Szasz has indicated that his own views came from libertarian politics held since his teens, rather than through experience in psychiatry ; that in his " rare " contacts with involuntary mental patients in the past he either sought to discharge them ( if they were not charged with a crime ) or " assisted the prosecution in securing conviction " ( if they were charged with a crime and appeared to be prima facie guilty ); that he is not opposed to consensual psychiatry and " does not interfere with the practice of the conventional psychiatrist ", and that he provided " listening-and-talking (" psychotherapy ")" for voluntary fee-paying clients from 1948 until 1996, a practice he characterizes as non-medical and not associated with his being a psychoanalytically trained psychiatrist.

She characterizes the latter as predominantly negative and proscriptive: it defines a person ’ s territory, including his or her property and dependents, which is not to be damaged or interfered with.

Big O notation characterizes functions according to their growth rates: different functions with the same growth rate may be represented using the same O notation.

In the political division between Guelphs and Ghibellines that characterizes the Italian Middle Ages, Pavia was traditionally Ghibelline, a position that was as much supported by the rivalry with Milan as it was a mark of the defiance of the Emperor that led the Lombard League against the emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who was attempting to reassert long-dormant Imperial influence over Italy.

It vividly characterizes the deities involved ; as the Egyptologist Donald B. Redford says, " Horus appears as a physically weak but clever Puck-like figure, Seth as a strong-man buffoon of limited intelligence, Re-Horakhty < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > as a prejudiced, sulky judge, and Osiris as an articulate curmudgeon with an acid tongue.

As is usual for universal properties, this universal property, together with the fact that βX is a compact Hausdorff space containing X, characterizes βX up to homeomorphism.

" She characterizes the novel as a departure from what had previously been associated with science fiction.

The shape of the susceptibility with respect to frequency characterizes the dispersion properties of the material.

An analogous statement characterizes those functors with a right adjoint.

This letter reflects the growing distrust of and dissatisfaction with language that so characterizes the Modern era, and Chandos's dissolving personality is not only individual but societal.

" TV Guide characterizes it as " a delightful and effervescent comedy marked with terrific performances " and praises Coburn as " nothing short of superb, stealing scene after scene with astonishing ease.