| NOUN | cognition | theoretical account, model, framework | a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process |
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| Meaning | A hypothetical description of a complex entity or process. | |
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| Synonyms | model, framework | |
| Narrower | Copernican system | (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun |
| M-theory | (particle physics) a theory that involves an eleven-dimensional universe in which the weak and strong forces and gravity are unified and to which all the string theories belong | |
| Ptolemaic system | (astronomy) Ptolemy's model of the universe with the Earth at the center | |
| mean sun | A theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds | |
| simulation, computer simulation | (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program | |
| stochastic process | A statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time) | |
| string theory | (particle physics) a theory that postulates that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings | |
| Broader | hypothesis, possibility, theory | A tentative insight into the natural world |
| Spanish | marco, marco teórico, modelo | |
| Catalan | marc, marc teòric, model | |
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