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rejection
n. refusal, denial, act of rejecting; state of being rejected; auto-immune response to a transplanted organ or body tissue

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Rejection
Rejection, or the verb Reject, meaning "to throw" or "to throw back", may refer to:
  • Social rejection, in psychology, an interpersonal situation that occurs when a person or group of people exclude an individual from a social relationship
  • Transplant rejection, in medicine, the immune reaction of a host organism to a foreign biological tissue, such as in a transplantation
  • In telecommunications, rejection is the receiving of the desired signal without interference from another undesired one.
  • In basketball, rejection is a slang term for a block
  • In mathematics, the rejection of a vector a from a vector b is the component of a perpendicular to b, as opposed to its projection, which is parallel to b.
  • In statistics, rejection of a null hypothesis in favour of an alternative hypothesis when doing a hypothesis test.
  • In statistics, rejection sampling is a technique used to generate observations from a distribution
  • In zoology, the shunning of one or more animals in a litter
  • A song by Martin Solveig
  • Perfection, Nevada, a fictional town in the Tremors film and T.V. series, originally named Rejection

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rejection
Noun
1. the act of rejecting something; "his proposals were met with rejection"
(hypernym) act, human action, human activity
(hyponym) brush-off
(derivation) refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline
2. the state of being rejected
(antonym) acceptance
(hypernym) situation, state of affairs
(hyponym) apostasy, renunciation, defection
3. (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign; "rejection of the transplanted liver"
(hypernym) organic phenomenon
(classification) medicine, medical specialty
4. the speech act of rejecting
(hypernym) speech act
(hyponym) repudiation, renunciation


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rejection
n. zamítnutí

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rejection
Rzecz. odmowa; odrzucenie