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UNLEARNING

Date "UNLEARNING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Specialty Definition: UNLEARNING

DomainDefinition

Computing

Negative learning phase during which the system randomly samples states according to their Boltzmann distribution and Hebbian learning occurs with a negative coefficient. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonym: UNLEARNING

Synonym by domain: unlearn (computing).

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Commercial Usage: UNLEARNING

DomainTitle

Books

  • Unlearning Church: Just When You Thought You Had Leadership All Figured Out (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Familiar Quotations: UNLEARNING

AuthorQuotation

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

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Use in Literature: UNLEARNING

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

We are unlearning certain things, and we do well, provided that while unlearning one thing we are learning another.

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Non-Fiction Usage: UNLEARNING

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Health

Many of the currently popular therapy programs for persistent stuttering focus on relearning how to speak or unlearning faulty ways of speaking. (references)

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Usage Frequency: UNLEARNING

"UNLEARNING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "UNLEARNING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)75%3202,518
Noun (singular)25%1339,140
                    Total100.00%4N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNLEARNING

Language Translations for "UNLEARNING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

aflæring (reverse learning). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

omgekeerd leren (reverse learning), afleren (break of a habit, break oneself of a habit, forget, get out of a habit, teach, unlearn). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

opitun unohtaminen (reverse learning), käänteinen oppiminen (reverse learning). (various references)

   

French

  

désapprentissage, apprentissage inversé. (various references)

   

German

  

verlernend. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αντίστροφη εκμάθηση (reverse learning). (various references)

   

Italian

  

apprendimento inverso (reverse learning). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earningunlay

   

Portuguese

  

desaprendizagem (reverse learning), aprendizagem inversa (reverse learning). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desaprendizaje (reverse learning), aprendizaje inverso (reverse learning). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avlärning (reverse learning). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: UNLEARNING

Misspellings

"UNLEARNING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unalarming. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNLEARNING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r-u"

-2 letters: learning, ungenial.

-3 letters: aginner, aligner, aneling, aneurin, anguine, eanling, earning, engrail, engrain, enuring, grannie, granule, guanine, leaning, linguae, nargile, nearing, nurling, realign, reginal, running, unagile, unlearn.

-4 letters: aliner, angler, annuli, earing, gainer, genial, ginner, glaire, gluier, guanin, guinea, gunnel, gunnen, gunner, inaner, lagune, langue, langur, lanner, larine, ligure, linage, linear, linger, lingua, lungan.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-n-n-r-u"
 

+3 letters: nonregulation, unreasoningly.

 

+4 letters: nonregulations.

 

+5 letters: understandingly.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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