parenting
- noun
- /ˈpɛrənˌtɪŋ/
- Specialized
- In computer animation, parenting allows a character's hand to move along with its arm when the arm is animated to parent the motion.
- surrogate parenting
Examples
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Many African American parents, including those with lower incomes, view education as paramount for their children (Diamond & Gomez, 2004) and view their support of education as a parenting strength (Gibson, 2005).
Academic text (2013) -
Over the next seven days, you will undergo close observation and formal testing to ascertain suitability for parenting.
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We'll go to that moving object parent, change it to head here.
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We can basically set this shape as the parent known memory shape.
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So let's say the parent class of Person is Animal.
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Let's look at that function, the parent graph of sign.
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And so each node in their representation could only have one parent node.
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It's done and then the parent controller goes and dismisses.
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And it turns out if you have a gas cloud that is the parent object that becomes the star and its orbiting planets.
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The basic parent graph of the basic parent graph of our exponential is fairly simple.
Synonyms
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3.9
A connection between things, for example air pollution and disease
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5.3
A device that connects two machine parts so they move together
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3.0
Attaching something to another thing to hold it in place
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5.1
Arranging items inside other items to make levels
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6.1
A connection between things or systems that makes them affect each other
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parenting comes from the word parent, a word for someone who cares for a child, so in computer graphics 'parenting' means making one object the 'parent' of another. The 'child' object then moves and turns with the parent, just like a child follows a parent.