pseudonumerical

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adjective

Numerical in some ways (e.g. rank order) but not others (such as supporting arithmetic operations).

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Meanings

adjectivepseudonumerical (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNumerical in some ways (e.g. rank order) but not others (such as supporting arithmetic operations).

    In many cases pseudonumerical scales have been set up to resemble category scales, but pseudonumerical scales really cut across different sensory experiences, mixing qualities.

    2013, Hildegarde Heymann, Harry T. Lawless, Sensory Evaluation of Food: Principles and Practices, page 251
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    it would be tempting to show that he quite rapidly applies to it intuitive operators (or intuitive quantifiers) of the following type: "an apple", "1 apple", "apples", "the apples" (transition from unity to plurality), some apples " ( restricted plurality ) , " many apples " " few apples " (pseudonumerical plurality ) , "no apples" ( a specific null class: no apples no bread), etc.

    1977, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, Jean Piaget, Piagetian Inventories: The Experiments of Jean Piaget, page 22

    A general accurate pseudonumerical technique for the analysis of single and multilayer open planar resonators loaded with dielectric slabs is given that can be used to obtain inversion curves.

    1995, International Aerospace Abstracts - Volume 35, Issues 7-9, page 1910

    An example of how this is done would be to induce responses to a statement by asking people to, for example, agree or disagree with the statement by discriminating between a number (typically 5, 7, or 9) of numerical (or pseudonumerical) points.

    2016, Brendan Wallace, Alastair Ross, Beyond Human Error: Taxonomies and Safety Science, page 59
  2. not comparablemathematicsBeing a factor-object of an algebraically numerical object.

    We introduce a pseudonumerical range and study an enclosure of this set.

    2016, Christian Engström, Axel Torshage, “Enclosure of the Numerical Range of a Class of Non-Selfadjoint Rational Operator Functions”, in arXiv

Origin

From pseudo- + numerical.

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