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VALUES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does values mean? 

VALUES (noun)
  The noun VALUES has 1 sense:

1. beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)play

  Familiarity information: VALUES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VALUES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Context example:

he has very conservatives values

Hypernyms ("values" is a kind of...):

belief (any cognitive content held as true)


 Context examples 


Values ​​up to 30 times higher than those found among the general population were reached.

(Babies in neonatal intensive care units are exposed to harmful chemical substances found in plastic, University of Granada)

The type of an expression with two possible values, "true" and "false".

(Boolean, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called reference interval, reference range, and reference values.

(Normal range, NCI Dictionary)

These relatively low values mean that the two gas giants are made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.

('Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere, NASA)

I am a sick man—oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care for nothing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The process by which a value is assigned to represent another set of values for ease of evaluation within a particular process.

(Numeric Conversion, NCI Thesaurus)

Specifies whether the observation is represented in the units or values as originally collected.

(Performed Clinical Result As Collected Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)

Global CO2 levels will not return to values below 400 ppm in our lifetimes, and almost certainly for much longer.

(South Pole is last place on Earth to pass global warming milestone, NOAA)

The number of values for which a given condition holds; an indication of how many objects may participate in a given relationship; the property of being multiple.

(Multiplicity, NCI Thesaurus)

The value which occurs most often in a set of values.

(Mode, NCI Thesaurus)



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