Nought (續：數學 單字大集合)

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    【數】零[C][U]

                      nought point 3

                      零點三



          2.    無,沒有什麼[U]

                      His efforts to reform the party came to nought

                      他改造黨的努力毫無結果。



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naught, nought (n.)



These spellings are in divided usage in the United States, 



but naught is more frequent meaning “nothing," as in It was all for naught, 



and nought is more frequent for the relatively infrequent meaning (in the United States, anyway) "zero," as in It's a big number with a lot of noughts in it. 



In British use, naught is always "nothing," nought always "zero."





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Putative



commensurate

having the same measure, of equal extent or duration

Life for our foreign visitors will be fully commensurate withe standard of living and convenience

tantamount

equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification

Calling Rian Johnson's teen indie Brick a piece of stuntwork might seem tantamount [to] hitting it with a pie,

from young Charlie's "miraculous" summoning of her Uncle Charlie (tantamount [to] calling up the Angel of Death) to Uncle Charlie's chilling exposition of his view on life,

analogous

it also feels analogous [to] any other coping mechanism, so it's never outside the viewer's [scope] of relating.

parity

equality, as in amount, status, or character

Excuse me, please. How many krone to the pound? The official parity rate is 19.34.

isometri

of, pertaining to, or having equality of measure

Great. Have you seen me since this happened? Pretty good? I've been doing a lot of lifting weights. Doing a lot of free-weights, isometrics, my body fat's way low. (複數) 靜力鍛鍊法



theorem

Mathematics. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.

cf. coronary

corollary

an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion

as a kind of microcosmic [analogue] (and [corollary])

So there’s no real [corollary] in live-action movies, but it’s interesting anyway — and fun.

The [corollary] turns out to be that every abortionist deserves to die—and then some.



abacus

Abacus: Chinese calculating instrument.

nought

zero, (British)

It's a big [number] with a lot of noughts in it. 

naught

nothing, (British)

It was [all] for naught

It's [all] for naught, however, as she's definitely not going to [enlarge] her fan base after Elf (2003) and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005). Like most eulogies, this one's [a] stiff. 

aught

anything whatever

[for] aught I know 

as a noun, it still means "zero" and stems from the faulty division of the words a naught into an aught

I [don’t] care aught for her now. 

Whether you've seen it or not, these [self]-reflective satires, parodies and homages have become a recurring [staple] of the aught[s], and slowly but surely, the landscape of modern cinema is changing because of them.



truncate

shorten by cutting off a part, cut short

Mathematics, Computers. to shorten (a number) by dropping a digit or digits

square or broad at the end, as if cut off transversely 

The numbers 1.4142 and 1.4987 can both be truncated [to] 1.4.

This awkward and truncated [adaptation] of Jane Hamilton's 1994 best-seller 

Mike projects his [em]bitterment about his truncated college football career [onto] his family,

Not that "Army of Shadows" [truncates], let alone mocks, the myth of the Resistance,

Long considered a classic of European film noir, this existential gangster drama from French director Jean-Pierre Melville was released in the United States only in a [severely] truncated, re-edited, and overdubbed version entitled The Godson.

Andrei Tarkovsky's career, truncated by Soviet political [meddling], and his life, cut short in 1986 by lung cancer, come together in his most personal film.

algorithm 

Lynch’s frequently updated Twitter stream flows like a stilted [algorithm] for transcendental meditation mantras (”Don’t look at the big pile.”) 互除法,演算法,規則系統

It's like a porno movie made by a [computer]: It downloads gigabytes of information about sex, it discovers our love affair with cars, and it combines them in a mistaken algorithm. 

calculus

I just made a speech in New York on integration. In differentiaI caIcuIus, a function is given, and the differentiaI is obtained. You understand? 結石,微積分



perpendicular

oblique, neither perpendicular nor parallel, indirect. 

You don't die like this. How don't you die? Perpendicular. What perpendicular? You have to cut perpendicular.

parabolic

When you were controlling the feed, did you notice it was parabolic? 拋物線的

convex

I know if there was a convex mirror up there. 凸狀,凸面體,凸透鏡



quotient

then jacks up the anxiety [quotient] by asking what it's like to care for a demented father who never cared for you.

logarithmic

which both reverses his age by several decades and logarithmically [expands] his intellectual capacities.

Ostensibly documenting a small convention of software developers who pit their chess-playing algorithms against one another, the film really looks into a strange crossroads where socially [cloistered] personalities seek to develop early artificial intelligence. p

tangent

digressing suddenly from one to another

Nair [flounders] for drama until the family's adopted cousin releases her [cannons] on a pedophiliac uncle, a [tangent] that provides the hamstrung Lalit with a few badly needed dimensions and a heroic [denouement].

"Happiness" now appears like a [momentary] tangent rather than a determined career-growth step onto a broader canvas.

Denis also [includes] a seemingly throwaway thread about illegal immigrants struggling to scratch out an existence in the city. It's a testament [to] her depth of feeling that such concerns, [rendered] tangentially here, nonetheless leave an impression.

vector

they're at turns shallow and inscrutable, their pathways tweezed into overdetermined vectors.



quadrant

Scanners report intrusion. Identify. Logan 5, Francis 7, authorized duty quadrant. Intrusion accidental. 四分之一圓周,九十度弧【數】象限

hypotenuse

Because no amount of friends, no girl, no assignments about conjugating the [pluperfect], or determining the square root of the hypotenuse, is gonna help me avoid my fate. 直角三角形的斜邊

















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