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synonymum en · NOUN

Etymology

From Czech synonymum or Slovak synonymum.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:non-native speakers' English) Synonym.
   • The term labor pains is being commonly used as a synonymum for the expulsive contractions of the uterine muscles. 1967, Acta universitatis palackianae olomucensis, page 165:
   • This then is the place to introduce methodological concepts of statistics into the vocabulary of inductive logic, i.e. to define in it concepts like “empirical means (of a sample)”, “empirical variance (of a sample)”, “empirical dispersion (of a sample)”, “true mean (of the population)” (being a synonymum for “degree of uniformity”), “true variance (of the population)”, “true dispersion (of the population)” etc., as well as the most important methodological concepts “amount of confidence probability”, “confidence interval” and “length of the confidence interval” (being a synonymum for “unexactness of the estimation”. 1986, Atti del Congresso logica e filosofia della scienza, oggi: Epistemologia e logica induttiva, page 85:
   • The specimens were determined originally as Romeria gracilis, but according to Geitler (1932) and Komárek (1958) it is a synonymum for Romeria elegans, as its dimmensions^([sic]) lie within the range known for R. elegans. 1964, Sbornik: Scientific papers. Technology of water. Oddil technologie vody, page 515:
   • Despite that Crosskey (1986) and Zwick ( 1995 ) consider them a synonymum for reptans along with the stress referring to its variability (Niesiolowski 1987) and electrophoretic indistinguishability, Knoz (pers. com.) considers the Central European populations of reptans and galeratum as different. 1992, Acta Zoologica Universitatis Comenianae, Univerzita Komenského, page 58:
   • It is a synonymum for the term of antisaprobity (B. & Z. CYRUS, 1947) with a completed definition. 1973, Ergebnisse der Limnologie, page 102:
   • The concept of personality was treated primitively by them — as a “great man“, or it was taken as a synonymum for the terms “person” or “individual”. 1991, Sborník prací Filosofické fakulty brněnské university: Řada historická. C, page 132:
   • The fact that linear spaces are infinite sets is not too important here permutation is then a synonymum for the bijection. 1983, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, page 728:
   • When speaking about edges, we use a notation (x, y) to be a synonymum for {x, y}. 1985, Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science: STACS, page 199:
   • This was introduced as a synonymum for Zeiller’s L. dichotomum (1880, 1886/8), which according to the later Arber’s discussions (see also Crookall 1929) is not identical with the L. dichotomum Stbg. 1950, Bulletin international: Classe des sciences mathématiques, naturelles et de la médecine, Česká akademie věd a umění, page 38:
   • Exactly the above mentioned terms “other pressure” or “advantages of any kind” constitute the synonymums for the ideological subversion by imperialism of the socialist countries. 1978, International Relations, page 14:
   • Herpetocypris palpiger A. G. Lowndes 1923 is a synonymum for Herpetocypris chevreuxi G. O. Sars 1869. 1952, Zoologické a Entomologické Listy, page 114:
   • Antitoxin is (a) the snake venom (b) an antibody (c) a viral product (d) a synonymum for toxoid 1983, Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Medica, Universita Karlova, page 207:
   • In this connection we must stress that „vegetative rapprochement“ belongs to Lysenko's terminology as a synonymum for „vegetative hybridisation“. 2004, Anna Matalová, Jiří Sekerák, Genetics Behind the Iron Curtain: Its Repudiation and Reinstitualisation in Czechoslovakia, page 18:
   • Obviously on the basis of this assumption, Popescu-Gorj et al. (1958) consider S. ortalidiformis Led. a synonymum for Ch. annellata f. oxybeliformis (H.-S.). 1983, Acta Universitatis Agriculturae: Facultas Agronomica, Vysoká škola zemědělská, page 211:
   • In this sense, the effective development is a synonymum for optimum development. 1972, Czechoslovak Digest, page 11:

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