line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
detached house
single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
racing skiff
single shell | a shell for a single oarsman |
| single bed | a bed for one occupant |
| single-breasted jacket | a jacket having fronts that overlap only enough for a single row of buttons |
| single-breasted suit | a suit having a single-breasted jacket |
single crochet
single stitch | a crochet stitch |
single prop
single-propeller plane | a propeller plane with a single propeller |
| single-mindedness | characterized by one unified purpose |
imagination imaginativeness
vision | the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses, popular imagination created a world of demons, imagination reveals what the world could be |
sight
vision visual sense
visual modality | the ability to see, the visual faculty |
| achromatic vision | vision using the rods |
| binocular vision | vision involving the use of both eyes |
| central vision | vision using the fovea and parafovea, the middle part of the visual field |
color vision
chromatic vision
trichromacy | the normal ability to see colors |
| distance vision | vision for objects that afeet or more from the viewer |
| foveal vision | vision with the fovea |
| monocular vision | vision with only one eye |
| near vision | vision for objects feet or closer to the viewer |
night vision
night-sight
scotopic vision
twilight vision | the ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight) |
daylight vision
photopic vision | normal vision in daylight, vision with sufficient illumination that the cones are active and hue is perceived |
| peripheral vision | vision at the edges of the visual field using only the periphery of the retina |
stereoscopic vision
stereoscopy | three-dimensional vision produced by the fusion of two slightly different views of a scene on each retina |
| vision visual sensation | the perceptual experience of seeing, the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision, he had a visual sensation of intense light |
| vision | a vivid mental image, he had a vision of his own death |
uninominal system
uninominal voting system
single-member system
scrutin uninomial system
scrutin uninominal voting system | based on the principle of having only one member (as of a legislature) selected from each electoral district |
visual field
field of vision
field of regard | all of the points of the physical environment that can be perceived by a stable eye at a given moment |
| single-spacing | typing that does not leave lines blank |
| single quote | a single quotation mark |
| vision | a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance, he had a vision of the Virgin Mary |
light cream
coffee cream
single cream | cream that has at least % butterfat, in England they call light cream `single cream' |
file
single file
Indian file | a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other |
line of sight
line of vision | an imaginary straight line along which an observer looks |
single nucleotide polymorphism
SNP | (genetics) genetic variation in a DNA sequence that occurs when a single nucleotide in a genome is altered, SNPs are usually considered to be point mutations that have been evolutionarily successful enough to recur in a significant proportion of the population of a species |
single-leaf
single-leaf pine
single-leaf pinyon
Pinus monophylla | pinon of southwestern United States having solitary needles and often many stems, important as a nut pine |
California single-leaf pinyon
Pinus californiarum | very small tree similar to Rocky mountain pinon but having a single needle per fascicle, similar to Parry's pinyon in range |
| single tax | a system of taxation in which a tax is levied on a single commodity (usually land) |
| single supplement | a surcharge added to the cost per person when traveling alone |
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single
unity | the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number, he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it, they had lunch at one |
function
mathematical function
single-valued function
map
mapping | (mathematics) a mathematical relation such that each element of a given set (the domain of the function) is associated with an element of another set (the range of the function) |
color blindness
colour blindness
color vision deficiency
colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
diplopia
double vision | visual impairment in which an object is seen as two objects, diplopia often disappears when one eye is covered |
monochromacy
monochromatism
monochromatic vision
monochromia
monochromasy | complete color blindness, colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness |
visual impairment
visual defect
vision defect
visual disorder | impairment of the sense of sight |
| tunnel vision | visual impairment involving a loss of peripheral vision |
| single out | select from a group, She was singled out for her outstanding performance |