vivification


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vivification
n. giving of life, animation

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Vivification
Vivification is an operation on a description logic knowledge base to improve performance of a semantic reasoner. Vivification replaces a disjunction of concepts by the least common subsumer of the concepts .

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vivification

Noun
1. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
(synonym) animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio
(hypernym) activeness, activity
(hyponym) chirpiness
(attribute) spirited
(derivation) vivify
2. the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something
(synonym) invigoration, animation
(hypernym) energizing, activating, activation
(derivation) animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify


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vivification
nf. exhilaration, recrement

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)Download this dictionary
Vivification
(n.)
The act or process of vivificating.
  
 
(n.)
The act of vivifying, or the state of being vivified; restoration of life; revival.
  
 
(n.)
One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
  

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