| basic training | the initial period of training for new military personnel, involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline |
logic programming
logic programing | creating a program that enables the computer to reason logically |
basic
staple | (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant |
| basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
component
constituent
element | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up, especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system, spare components for cars, a component or constituent element of a system |
detector
sensor
sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
| gate logic gate | a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs |
| heating element | the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat |
| logic element | an electronic device that performs an elementary logic operation |
pixel
pel
picture element | (computer science) the smallest discrete component of an image or picture on a CRT screen (usually a colored dot), the greater the number of pixels per inch the greater the resolution |
threshold element
threshold gate | a logic element that performs a threshold operation |
| logic | reasoned and reasonable judgment, it made a certain kind of logic |
logic logical system
system of logic | a system of reasoning |
| Aristotelian logic | the syllogistic logic of Aristotle as developed by Boethius in the Middle Ages |
| basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
| plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story |
component
constituent
element
factor
ingredient | an abstract part of something, jealousy was a component of his character, two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony, the grammatical elements of a sentence, a key factor in her success, humor: an effective ingredient of a speech |
fundamentals
basics
fundamental principle
basic principle
bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
| logic | the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation, economic logic requires it, by the logic of war |
basic assumption
constatation
self-evident truth | an assumption that is basic to an argument |
| logic | the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations |
| logic | the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
symbolic logic
mathematical logic
formal logic | any logical system that abstracts the form of statements away from their content in order to establish abstract criteria of consistency and validity |
Boolean logic
Boolean algebra | a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole, used in computers |
propositional logic
propositional calculus | a branch of symbolic logic dealing with propositions as units and with their combinations and the connectives that relate them |
| modal logic | a system of logic whose formal properties resemble certain moral and epistemological concepts |
| alethic logic | the modal logic of necessity and possibility and contingency |
| deontic logic | the modal logic of obligation and permissibility |
| epistemic logic | the modal logic of knowledge and uncertainty and ignorance |
| doxastic logic | the modal logic of belief and disbelief |
| fuzzy logic | a form of mathematical logic in which truth can assume a continuum of values between
and |
| modal logic | the logical study of necessity and possibility |
logic diagram
logical diagram | a graphical representation of a program using formal logic |
logic bomb
slag code | a set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or `explode') if a particular condition is satisfied, when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects, a disgruntled employee planted a logic bomb |
| Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
Prolog
logic programing
logic programming | a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing |
| BASIC | a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn, an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code, no longer in general use |
| element | the most favorable environment for a plant or animal, water is the element of fishes |
logic operation
logical operation | an operation that follows the rules of symbolic logic |
identity identity element
identity operator | an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates, the identity under numerical multiplication is |
| element | a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone |
| element of a cone | a straight line joining the apex and a point on the base |
| element of a cylinder | a straight line running the length of the cylinder |
| element | the situation in which you are happiest and most effective, in your element |
chemical element
element | any of the more than known substances (of which occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter |
| transuranic element | any element having an atomic number greater than (which is the atomic number of uranium), all are radioactive |
rare earth
rare-earth element
lanthanoid
lanthanide
lanthanon | any element of the lanthanide series (atomic numbers through ) |
metallic element
metal | any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. |
bohrium
Bh
element
atomic number | a transuranic element |
darmstadtium
Ds
element
atomic number | a radioactive transuranic element |