not+spurious

  • 31spurious correlation — noun a correlation between two variables (e.g., between the number of electric motors in the home and grades at school) that does not result from any direct relation between them (buying electric motors will not raise grades) but from their… …

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  • 32spurious infection — noun A case in which parasites invade a host but do not succeed in colonizing it, for example merely passing through the digestive tract …

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  • 33spurious claim — false claim, argument that is not true …

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  • 34spurious — [ spjʊərɪəs] adjective 1》 false or fake. 2》 (of a line of reasoning) apparently but not actually valid. 3》 archaic (of offspring) illegitimate. Derivatives spuriously adverb spuriousness noun Origin C16: from L. spurius false + ou …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 35spurious — adj 1. counterfeit, fraudulent, imitation, fake Inf. phony, forged; not genuine, bogus, supposititious, bastardly Australian. bunyip; unreal, false, insincere, mock, ersatz, synthetic; pretended, feigned, simulated, sham, make believe; artifical …

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  • 36spurious — [ˈspjʊəriəs] adj formal not based on true facts …

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  • 37spurious — False, counterfeit, not genuine …

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  • 38spurious class action — One of the former categories of class action in which interests of members of class were several and not interdependent, and where joinder was a matter of efficiency to avoid multiplicity of suits. Slack v. Stiner, C.A.Tex., 358 F.2d 65, 69. This …

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  • 39Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity — Mozart, pictured in 1770 aged 13 This list of Mozart symphonies of spurious or doubtful authenticity contains 39 symphonic works where an initial attribution to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has subsequently been proved spurious, or is the subject of… …

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  • 40Correlation does not imply causation — (related to ignoring a common cause and questionable cause) is a phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other (though correlation is necessary for …

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