reference consultation | the act of referring or consulting, reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer |
reference grid | a pattern of horizontal and vertical lines that provide coordinates for locating points on an image or a map |
area region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
cortical area cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
motor area motor region motor cortex Rolando's area excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
sensorimotor area sensorimotor region | an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions |
pubes pubic region loins | the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs |
Hell Hades infernal region netherworld Scheol underworld | (religion) the world of the dead, No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth-Theognis |
Hell perdition Inferno infernal region nether region pit | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil, where sinners suffer eternal punishment, Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell- John Milton, a demon from the depths of the pit, Hell is paved with good intentions-Dr. Johnson |
hellfire red region | a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned |
frame of reference frame | a system of assumptions and standards that sanction behavior and give it meaning |
coordinate system frame of reference reference system reference frame | a system that uses coordinates to establish position |
reference denotation extension | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, the class of objects that an expression refers to, the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos |
reference | the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to, he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes |
region realm | a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about, it was a limited realm of discourse, here we enter the region of opinion, the realm of the occult |
inertial reference frame inertial frame | a coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is valid |
address computer address reference | (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored |
reference book reference reference work book of facts | a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts, he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic |
reference manual | a manual containing information organized in a summary manner |
character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
citation cite acknowledgment credit reference mention quotation | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage, the student's essay failed to list several important citations, the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book, the article includes mention of similar clinical cases |
mention reference | a remark that calls attention to something or someone, she made frequent mention of her promotion, there was no mention of it, the speaker made several references to his wife |
anatomical reference anatomical | an expression that relates to anatomy |
reference point point of reference reference | an indicator that orients you generally, it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved |
reference source | a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to, he carried an armful of references back to his desk, he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation |
Frigid Zone polar zone polar region | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole, characterized by frigid climate |
geographical area geographic area geographical region geographic region | a demarcated area of the Earth |
biogeographical region | an area of the Earth determined by distribution of flora and fauna |
D-layer D region | the lowest region of the ionosphere ( tomiles up) that reflects low-frequency radio waves |
Appleton layer F layer F region | the highest region of the ionosphere (fromto miles up) which contains the highest concentration of free electrons and is most useful for longange radio transmission |
Heaviside layer Kennelly-Heaviside layer E layer E region | a region of the ionosphere (fromtomiles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length |
region part | the extended spatial location of something, the farming regions of France, religions in all parts of the world, regions of outer space |
region | a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth, penguins inhabit the polar regions |
unknown unknown region terra incognita | an unknown and unexplored region, they came like angels out the unknown |
Xinjiang Sinkiang Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region | an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan, the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people |
Italian region | Italy is divided intoregions for administrative purposes |
Lothian Region | a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh |
French region | a geographical subdivision of France |
Tidewater Tidewater region | the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia |
Bluegrass Bluegrass Country Bluegrass Region | an area in central Kentucky noted for it bluegrass and thoroughbred horses |
region neighborhood | the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'), it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job, the price is in the neighborhood of $ |
epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
reference cite | refer to, he referenced his colleagues' work |