dramatic production
dramatic performance | the act of performing a drama, the group joined together in a dramatic production |
curve curve ball
breaking ball
bender | a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter |
transformation
translation | the act of changing in form or shape or appearance, a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface |
| transformation | (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA |
| production | (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law, the appellate court demanded the production of all documents |
| production | the act or process of producing something, Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous, the production of white blood cells |
| production | the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services |
| production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale, he introduced more efficient methods of production |
| mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
boring
drilling
oil production | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum |
art
artistic creation
artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
bend
curve | curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.) |
blind curve
blind bend | a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are driving |
product
production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process, they improve their product every year, they export most of their agricultural production |
production line
assembly line
line | mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it |
| curvature curve | the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface |
possibility possible action
opening | a possible alternative, bankruptcy is always a possibility |
hypothesis
possibility
theory | a tentative insight into the natural world, a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena, a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory, he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices |
| possibility | a future prospect or potential, this room has great possibilities |
| frontier | an undeveloped field of study, a topic inviting research and development, he worked at the frontier of brain science |
normal curve
bell-shaped curve
Gaussian curve
Gaussian shape | a symmetrical curve representing the normal distribution |
regression line
regression curve | a smooth curve fitted to the set of paired data in regression analysis, for linear regression the curve is a straight line |
| production order | an order that initiates the manufacturing process |
frequencyesponse curve
frequencyesponse characteristic | (electronics) a graph of frequency response with signal amplitude or gain plotted against frequency |
| curve | a line on a graph representing data |
characteristic curve
characterisic function | (electronics) graph showing how a particular characteristic of a device varies with other parameters |
| Laffer curve | a graph purporting to show the relation between tax rates and government income, income increases as tax rates increase up to an optimum beyond which income declines |
| learning curve | a graph showing the rate of learning (especially a graph showing the amount recalled as a function of the number of attempts to recall) |
| production | a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television, have you seen the new production of Hamlet? |
theatrical production
staging | the production of a drama on the stage |
| speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
| production | a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated, she tends to make a big production out of nothing |
| transformation | a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure |
transformation
transmutation
shift | a qualitative change |
frontier settlement
outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
| frontier | an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary |
| frontier | a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country, the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day |
| Triple Frontier | the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet, an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering, a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups |
Alaska
Last Frontier
AK | a state in northwestern North America, the th state admitted to the union, Alaska is the largest state in the United States |
latent heat
heat of transformation | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure |
| production cost | combined costs of raw material and labor incurred in producing goods |
pair production
pair creation
pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
| steel production | making steel from pig iron |
output
yield
production | the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time), production was up in the second quarter |
| transformation | (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system |
| affine transformation | (mathematics) a transformation that is a combination of single transformations such as translation or rotation or reflection on an axis |
| exponential curve | a graph of an exponential function |
curve
curved shape | the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes |
| closed curve | a curve (such as a circle) having no endpoints |
simple closed curve
Jordan curve | a closed curve that does not intersect itself |