degree of freedom
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7.4
- noun
- /dɪˈɡriː əv ˈfriːdəm/
- Specialized
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grado de libertad
- OK, so this is what's called a single degree of freedom mechanism.
- radial degrees of freedom
- vertical degrees of freedom
- three degrees of freedom
At most three possible degrees of freedom, XY and some Theta, right?
- At most three possible degrees of freedom, XY and some Theta, right?
- Then there's Go, which had many orders of magnitude more degrees of freedom than than chess.
- That's what we call a continuous degree of freedom.
- And at the same time, the human form like has way too many degrees of freedom to play with.
- Each particle would have a four component thing associated with it, some new degree of freedom.
- If you add a fourth dimension, you're adding a degree of freedom of where things can hang out and possibly never then find each other.
- I think it's just that it has so many degrees of freedom that it can't it can't really operate in a predictable way.
- So what does it mean that there is now more degrees of freedom as they become?
- Solid, liquid gas, degrees of freedom between electrons and neutrons, right?
- What is the minimum amount of degrees of freedom we need?
- And I, this is where more degrees of freedom, I think, need to be given when we're talking about alternative solutions to things.
Examples
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Robotic surgical tools combine the highly mobile four degrees of freedom (three for orientation, one for grip).
Academic text (1998) -
What range of energy scales are well described by the degrees of freedom that one keeps in the theory?
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So I have two degrees of freedom, right?
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These cameras allow for six degrees of freedom of movement.
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In some systems, a module only has one degree of freedom.
Academic text (2011) -
The 95 percent confidence limit for a chi-square test with 13 degrees of freedom is 22.4.
Academic text (1993) -
Barrett Technology's BH8 hand, with eight degrees of freedom, was the first industrial hand to mimic human grasp.
Academic text (2008) -
Unstable dynamics, six degrees of freedom, GPS, gyroscopes, and accelerometers: control doesn't get much more challenging than that.
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Because a modular robotic system may have many degrees of freedom, algorithms for robotic clusters tend to be computationally intensive.
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In a robotic arm, each joint typically provides one degree of freedom for movement.
Synonyms
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4.2
An aspect of something that can be measured or compared
Surface Forms
Morphology
A learner who knows 'degree' (amount/extent) and 'freedom' (ability to act) can infer a general sense of 'amount of freedom', but the precise statistical meaning — the number of independent values that can vary — is technical and not derivable from the constituents alone. The phrase is therefore partially compositional but requires domain knowledge to reach its full meaning.
Etymology
The phrase degree of freedom comes from a simple image: each way something can move is one degree of freedom. Imagine a toy arm that can move left and right and up and down; each separate movement is a degree of freedom, so the term means 'a separate way something can move or change'.