literature
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5.3
- noun
- /ˈlɪtərətʃər/
- Specialized
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literatura
- Now, we know from the literature that students don't like pop quizzes.
- a literature review
- a body of literature
- scientific literature
There's a whole documented clinical literature about what people see.
- There's a whole documented clinical literature about what people see.
- Well, that has been in the official literature for a long time.
- I'll show you how the literature is trying to bridge the gap.
- And there's a parallel literature in in Islam called the Fadaiil books.
- That's kind of a common place in literature on friendship.
- So it's it's more sort of a literature based approach to doing research.
- Now, we know from the literature that students don't like pop quizzes.
- And the prevailing wisdom in this literature is you just need to understand it.
- I mean, it was a really, really exhaustive look at the literature.
- So women were occupying their time with things that are classified in the literature as hedonic well-being.
- So, so we keep up to speed with that literature.
Examples
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I try to keep up with the literature.
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So women were occupying their time with things that are classified in the literature as hedonic well-being.
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Well, that has been in the official literature for a long time.
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Despite all that, if you then look at the body of literature, there are some great results.
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Some of the literature says it will pass.
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A survey of French literature for American students.
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And I know the psychology literature quite well.
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We developed the questionnaire following our literature review and 20 interviews with industry experts.
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However, there is limited research in the current literature pertaining to multicultural awareness.
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Researchers often refer to the previous literature when conducting new studies on this topic.
Synonyms
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1.0
Written material like books that people study or enjoy
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1.0
Things like books and magazines to read for information or enjoyment
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7.3
A collection of written texts, often all the works of one author
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8.6
A university subject about books and written works
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2.3
Text created by a person, like a book or letter
Compounds
- Literature
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8.2
Books from the Bible that give advice about how to live, like Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
A database from the US National Library of Medicine for finding information about medical research articles
- Literature
Writings in Old English from about the 5th to 12th centuries in England, like poems and religious texts
How Technical
- Archaic
- Specialized
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5.3
127
3.2
- Literature
Surface Forms
Etymology
Literature comes from the Latin littera 'letter', so it first meant writing made of letters and then came to mean all the published writing on a topic. That is why we talk about the medical literature or the safety literature as the collected writings about a subject.