Tendency

  • 111dangerous tendency test — Propensity of person or animal to inflict injury; used in dog bite cases to describe vicious habits of Frazier v. Stone, 515 S.W.2d 766 (Mo.App.) …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 112dangerous tendency test — Propensity of person or animal to inflict injury; used in dog bite cases to describe vicious habits of Frazier v. Stone, 515 S.W.2d 766 (Mo.App.) …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 113Militant Tendency — noun a Trotskyist political organization in Great Britain set up in 1964 inside the Labour Party • Hypernyms: ↑party, ↑political party …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 114barometric tendency — noun : the change of atmospheric pressure during the last few (generally three) hours before a regular observation …

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  • 115predisposition to — tendency to …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 116Tendencies — Tendency Tend en*cy, n.; pl. {Tendencies}. [L. tendents, entis, p. pr. of tendere: cf. F. tendance. See {Tend} to move.] Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 117exophoria — Tendency of the eyes to deviate outward when fusion is suspended. SYN: exodeviation (1). [exo + G. phora, a carrying] * * * ex·o·pho·ria .ek sə fōr ē ə n latent strabismus in which the visual axes tend outward toward the temple compare… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 118Globalization — Tendency toward a worldwide investment environment, and the integration of national capital markets. * * * globalization glo‧bal‧i‧za‧tion [ˌgləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʆn ǁ ˌgloʊbələ ] also globalisation noun [uncountable] COMMERCE the tendency for the world… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 119globalization — Tendency toward a worldwide investment environment, and the integration of national capital markets. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * globalization glo‧bal‧i‧za‧tion [ˌgləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʆn ǁ ˌgloʊbələ ] also globalisation noun [uncountable]… …

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  • 120submergence — tendency for fishes of higher latitudes to seek deeper (colder, darker) water towards the tropics. Also called equatorial submergence, e.g. Cottidae, Zoarcidae …

    Dictionary of ichthyology