fiducially

comparative more fiducially · superlative most fiducially

1. With confidence.

   enables the Soul fiducially to close with and rest upon that Object

   1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London

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   This I call an acting fiducially; that is, with a believing persuasion and particular application.

   1866, Ralph Erskine, Select sermons, page 178

   Their ethics were supported by the Hippocratic principle of doing no harm, a deontological imperative that was realized fiducially through the physician's relationship to the patient.

   2009, Gerald Kutcher, Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military, page 57

2. In a fiducial manner; using or as a reference marker.

   Then take the micrometer reading, using the indicator fiducially.

   1970, Stanley Alfred James Parsons, Metrology and Gauging, page 164

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   A very perfect internal collimating telescope, with means under the observers hand of adjusting fiducially the line of collimation without the intervention of an assistant.

   1871, Royal Society (Great Britain). Southern Telescope Committee, Correspondence Concerning the Great Melbourne Telescope, page 21

   Respiratory gating with fiducially based respiratory motion tracking on a robotic radio-surgery system exemplifies a forerunner of more advanced fiducially based tracking systems [36].

   2011, S.J. Belsley, “Robotic Applications in Surgical Oncology”, in Ronald Matteotti, Stanley W. Ashley, editor, Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology, page 51

3. proscribedSynonym of fiducial (accepted as a basis of reference)

   Dick et al. [151] employed an ANN model to track irradiation of the liver without using fiducially tumors to monitor the lung-diaphragm boundary.

   2023, Neeraj Kumar Fuloria, Rishabha Malviya, Swati Verma, Big Data in Oncology: Impact, Challenges, and Risk Assessment

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   The success profit AG2(Y) is below the fiducially point Alpha, AG2(Y) < AG1 (X) exist and the success profit AG1(X) is over the fiducially point Beta.

   2004, Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, page 179

   Cluster outlines are dealt with as combinatorial associations in which, for each fiducially point, a stream from an alternate illustration experience can be chosen, in this way making a very helpful plan. This plan is printed to new face pictures to successfully discover the fiducially factors in the photo.

   2019, D. K. Kishore Galla, BabuReddy Mukamalla, “Real Time Gender Classification Based on Facial Features Using EBGM”, in Suresh Chandra Satapathy, K. Srujan Raju, K. Shyamala, editor, Advances in Decision Sciences, Image Processing, Security and Computer Vision, page 553

   Synonyms: fiducial

4. mathematicsPertaining to or based on the correspondence between a parameter in a sample and the same parameter in the population from which the sample was drawn.

   Closely related to the tests that have previously been described is the notion of fiducially related values of σ and s.

   1938, On the Statistical Theory of Errors, page 142

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   In arguing fiducially about the value of a parameter, a procedure applicable to some of the simple cases begins by the calculation from the sample of an estimate of the parameter in question.

   1967, Samuel Stanley Wilks, Collected Papers; Contributions to Mathematical Statistics, page 252

   That is to say, we might consider the exponent (τ₀ - μ)/Θ to be distributed fiducially as a weighted sum of two Chi-squares.

   1971, Technometrics - Volume 13, page 874

5. lawIn a fiduciary manner.

   Where plan was part owner of mortgages, other investors were not fiducially liable to plan

   1975, Pension Plan Guide

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   Be it further enacted, That all libraries &c. held fiducially or individually for seminary or church objects, shall be alike exempt from taxation.

   1816, Acts Passed at the First Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, page 520

   The logic of the Audit is fiducially incompetent and wrong, and following it will lead to steadily increasing catastrophic forest fire acreage and exponentially greater cost-plus-losses in the future.

   2007, Mike Dubrasich, “Statement of Michael E. Dubrasich, Lebanon”, in Costs of wildfire suppression :Congressional Hearing, page 79