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11spurious — [spyoor′ē əs, spʉr′ē əs] adj. [L spurius, illegitimate (in LL, false), orig., a bastard < Etr] 1. Now Rare illegitimate; bastard 2. not true or genuine; false; counterfeit 3. Bot. like in appearance but unlike in structure or function 4. Radio …
12Spurious wakeup — In the POSIX thread API, the function pthread cond wait is used to wait on a condition variable. A naive programmer might expect that when a thread returns from this function, the condition associated with the condition variable will be true.… …
13spurious correlation — A correlation between two variables when there is no causal link between them. A famous spurious correlation often quoted in the literature is that between the number of fire engines at a fire (X) and the amount of damage done (Y). Once the size… …
14spurious — spu|ri|ous [ spjuriəs ] adjective 1. ) something such as a statement that is spurious is not reasonable or correct because it is not based on true facts or a sensible way of thinking: a spurious claim/comparison 2. ) not real or sincere: spurious …
15spurious — illegitimate From the days when birth other than to married parents was viewed differently. Literally, it meant not real, although the resultant human beings certainly existed: He would not have spurious children to get any share of… …
16spurious — adjective an attempt to be excused due to some spurious medical condition Syn: bogus, fake, false, counterfeit, forged, fraudulent, sham, artificial, imitation, simulated, feigned, deceptive, misleading, specious; informal phony, pretend Ant …
17spurious — UK [ˈspjʊərɪəs] / US [ˈspjʊrɪəs] adjective formal 1) something such as a statement that is spurious is not reasonable or correct because it is not based on true facts or a sensible way of thinking a spurious claim/comparison 2) not real or… …
18spurious — specious, spurious Specious, like the Latin word speciosus from which it is derived, began its life meaning ‘having a fine outward appearance’ (from Latin species ‘outward form’), but in the 17c acquired the unfavourable connotations that now… …
19spurious — False; not genuine. [L. spurius] * * * spu·ri·ous spyu̇r ē əs adj simulating a symptom or condition without being pathologically or morphologically genuine <spurious labor pains> <spurious polycythemia> * * * spu·ri·ous (spuґre… …
20Spurious emission — A spurious emission is any radio frequency not deliberately created or transmitted, especially in a device which normally does create other frequencies. A harmonic or other signal outside a transmitter s assigned channel would be considered a… …
