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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

multiitem en · ADJ

Etymology

From multi- + item.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of or pertaining to more than one item.
    • Skogan's independent variable is called "disorder," and he constructs it by averaging two multi-item scales, "social disorder" and "physical disorder". These are both constructed by averaging the values of a number of variables, each of which corresponds to the respondents' answers to a question assessing the extent to which a certain type of disorder is perceived by them as a problem in their neighborhood. 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 3, in Illusion of Order: