... calculations a second. The centre makes forecasts10 days ahead for
18 national meteorological...
... any action whose success hinges on a forecastbeing right. They might
end up doing a lot...
... stands up in the House of Commons to forecastBritain’s economic
performance for the next...
... labour of its people. This gloomy forecastcan be better understood
by looking closely...
... but three months earlier the secret forecastcarried out by Treasury
economists suggested...
concrete nounn
a noun which refers to a physical thing, rather than a quality, state, or
action. For example book, house, and machine are concrete nouns. A noun
which refers to a quality, state, or action is called an abstract noun. For
example happiness, idea, and punishment are abstract nouns.
see also noun
concrete operational stagen
see cognitive development
concurrent validityn
(in testing) a type of validitythat is based on the extent to which a test
correlates with some other test that is aimed at measuring the same skill, or
with some other comparable measure of the skill being tested. For example,
to determine the concurrent validity of a new L2 listening comprehension test,
one could calculate the correlation between scores of a group of test takers
on this test with their scores on an existing valid and reliable test of L2
listening comprehension at about the same time. The resulting correlation
coefficient would provide a measure of the concurrent validity of the test.
conditionaln
a grammatical moodwhich describes an imaginary or hypothetical situation
or event. In some languages it is expressed by adding an affixto the verb,
e.g. je donnerais (“I would give”) in French, where ais is the conditional
affix added to the verb infinitive donner (“to give”). In English, should and
would are also sometimes described as the conditional in sentences such as:
We should like to meet her. I would go if I could.
conditional clausen
(in English) adverbial clauses beginning with if, unless or conjunctions
with similar meanings, where a state or situation in one clause is dependent
concrete noun