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VALUES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)
Example:
he has very conservatives values
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("values" is a kind of...):
belief (any cognitive content held as true)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb value
Context examples:
The lowest value in a possible range of values for a pharmacokinetic concentration assessment.
(Pharmacokinetic Concentration Lower Limit of Quantitation, NCI Thesaurus)
A coded value specifying the relationship of a value to a normal range or reference range of values.
(Normal Range Comparison Code, NCI Thesaurus)
“What kind of value? How do you measure it? Who values it?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The presence of the same types of materials on Mars suggests that oxygen levels rose there, too, before declining to their present values.
(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)
A laboratory test result that indicates the presence of abnormal peripheral blood and/or bone marrow values.
(Abnormal Hematology Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)
A laboratory test result that indicates the presence of abnormal blood chemistry and/or hematology values.
(Abnormal Blood Chemistry and Hematology Test Result, NCI Thesaurus)
A data type comprised of a set of uncertain probalistic values in histogram format.
(Non-Parametric Probability Distribution Data Type, NCI Thesaurus)
Reported values outside the typical or expected range.
(Abnormal Reference Range, NCI Thesaurus)
Grade 0 is universally defined as absence of Adverse Events or within normal limits or values.
(Absent Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
The numerical sum between zero and ten that is computed from individual values of zero to two that are assigned to five different areas of interest in newborn screenings.
(Apgar Score, NCI Thesaurus)