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Tekoälykääntäjä

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUK:
    • IPA: /ˈsɛk.ʃən/
  • ÄäntäminenUS:
    • IPA: /ˈsɛk.ʃən/

Lyhenteet ja supistumat

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

  1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
  2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
  3. A part of a document.
  4. An act or instance of cutting.
  5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
  6. (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
  7. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
  8. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
  9. A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
  10. An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
  11. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
  12. (category theory) A right inverse.
  13. (NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.
  14. (Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Verbit

  1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
  2. (British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons.

Esimerkit

  • Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […].  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […]  But the scandals kept coming, and so we entered stage three – what therapists call "bargaining". A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  • Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). [...] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.
  • The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.
  • After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- ¶ [...]

Taivutusmuodot

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