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Adaptive vs False - What's the difference?

adaptive | false |

As adjectives the difference between adaptive and false

is that adaptive is of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

adaptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable.
  • * {{quote-book, author=Charles Darwin, title=, year=1859
  • , passage=The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.}}
  • * {{quote-book, author=C. Lloyd Morgan, title=, year=1896
  • , passage=That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.}}
  • Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change.
  • (psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.
  • Synonyms

    * (capable of being adapted) adaptable * adaptative

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * adaptively * adaptiveness * adaptivity * adaptive beamformer * adaptive behaviour * adaptive bridge * adaptive clothing * adaptive coding * adaptive communications * adaptive compression * adaptive enzyme * adaptive equalization * adaptive expectations * adaptive filter * adaptive hypertrophy * adaptive management * adaptive modulation * adaptive optics * adaptive predictive coding * adaptive radiation * adaptive resonance * adaptive reuse * adaptive routing * adaptive switching * adaptive system * adaptive technology * adaptive value * adaptive zone

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    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

    Anagrams

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