systematic variation

collocation in English

meaningsofsystematicandvariation

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systematic
adjective
uk
/ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪk/us
/ˌsɪs.təˈmæt̬.ɪk/
according to an agreed set of methods or ...
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variation
noun
uk
/ˌveə.riˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌver.iˈeɪ.ʃən/
a change in amount ...
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(Definition ofsystematicandvariationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Systematicvariationof a probability assessment is no longer necessary.
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Once the aggregate is disentangled, a great deal ofsystematicvariationin developmental trajectories emerges.
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For these experiments no quantifiablesystematicvariationin layer thicknesses was observed.
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There appears to be nosystematicvariationin apparent age with stratigraphic position.
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If technology was determinant, then we would expect to find littlesystematicvariationin that array.
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Systematicvariationof the spatial proper ties in the periphery was beyond the scope of these experiments.
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The other general observation is ofsystematicvariationbetween countries in their uptake of costly new interventions, particularly nonpharmaceutical ones.
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We could not detect evidence for asystematicvariationin fiber density across the face of either nerve.
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Resorting to switching between grammatical subsets (or mini-grammars) is thus not necessarily the only principled explanation forsystematicvariation.
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Thus, different degrees of cognitive effort may introducesystematicvariationthat is confounded with the variation explained by cognitive capacity.
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Percentage of development time spent in each stage showed littlesystematicvariationwith temperature and coefficients of variation for development rates were similarly unaffected.
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Nevertheless, except for partisan involvement there was littlesystematicvariationin the saliency of democracy across various subsets of the elite sample.
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The goodness of fit of the models was scrutinized by checking the model standardized residuals for normality and evidence ofsystematicvariation.
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Alignments of titanite and hornblende are also noted, however, nosystematicvariationin the degree of prefer red orientation has been observed.
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Due to the lack ofsystematicvariationacross contrast level, a response phase value was obtained for each frequency by averaging across all contrast levels tested.
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This systematic sampling pattern was then repeated, moving clockwise, and assumes there is nosystematicvariationin soil matric potential within a 3.5 m radius around each tree.
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The constant reference to the striking (and the absence ofsystematicvariation)19 is characteristic of riddles and a contrast to the customs of school systems.
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Finally, the results presented here provide additional evidence thatsystematicvariationis characteristic of all human languages, regardless of the modality in which they are expressed.
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Such attributive s-genitives could already vary with noun modifiers at a time when there was as yet nosystematicvariationbetween determiner genitives and noun modifiers.
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Such an examination of the empirical evidence reveals that there is indeedsystematicvariationin the meaning of democracy across different subsets of both the elite and mass respondents.
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Experiment 1 indicated that four-year-olds have gained some control over segmental duration in that, like adults, they producedsystematicvariationin /s/ duration as a function of onset type.
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Then it goes on withsystematicvariationof coefficients, both for the side and for the area; next follow var ious problems on two, later three or four squares.
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Across the levels of type of similarity, only perceptual confusability showedsystematicvariation, verifying that correct identification of shared phonemes was likely and confusion of different phonemes was unlikely.
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