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plural loaders
Agent noun of load; a person or device that loads. quotations examples
A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.
1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
(computing) A program that prepares other programs for execution. examples
A tractor with a scoop, for example: front-end loader, front loader, endloader, payloader, bucket loader, wheel loader, etc. examples
(marketing) An incentive given to a dealer. quotations examples
Unique point-of-purchase materials and display loaders dramatically contribute to the display's attention-getting ability.
1990, Robert B. Konikow, Sales Promotion Design, page 197
Marketers use dealer loaders to obtain new distributors and push larger quantities of goods.
1995, William M. Pride, O. C. Ferrell, Marketing: Concepts and Strategies, page 591
Dealer (or buying) loaders are gifts offered to resellers for stocking products. Many companies specialize in providing premium and gift items, and publish catalogues from which you can select appropriate items.
2001, Stuart Clark Rogers, Marketing Strategies, Tactics, and Techniques, page 172
comparative more affine, superlative most affine
(mathematics) Assigning finite values to finite quantities. examples
(geometry) Of or pertaining to a function expressible as f ( x → ) = A x → + b → (where A is a linear transformation and b → is a constant), which, regarded as a transformation, maps parallel lines to parallel lines and finite points to finite points. quotations examples
Now, let P, Q, and R be three noncollinear points that are left fixed by an affine transformation T.
1986, Patrick J. Ryan, Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometry: An Analytic Approach, Cambridge University Press, page 44
In our example of the affine cryptosystem family, deciphering is also accomplished by an affine map, namely P ≡ a − 1 C − a − 1 b mod N {\displaystyle P\equiv a^{-1}C-a^{-1}b{\bmod {N}}} , and so the deciphering transformation uses the same algorithm as the enciphering transformation, except with a different key, namely, the pair ( a − 1 , − a − 1 b ) {\displaystyle (a^{-1},-a^{-1}b)} .
1987, Neal Koblitz, A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, Springer, page 81
Clearly every linear functional is affine, and every affine function is both convex and concave.
2006, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, 3rd edition, Springer, page 256
(comparable, chemistry) Of two materials, having mutual affinity. examples
plural affines
(anthropology, genealogy) A relative by marriage. quotations
The element of personal idiosyncracy[sic] may be expected to be most marked in regard to affines (i.e. those related by marriage) and particularly with the consanguines of affines, who are linked by still more tenuous bonds. There are many possible degrees of affinal relationship here, but broadly affines separate into two main types: spouse of consanguine of Ego, and consanguine of spouse of Ego—exemplified by my brother's wife, and my wife's brother.
1970 [Routledge and Kegan Paul], Raymond Firth, Jane Hubert, Anthony Forge, Families and Their Relatives: Kinship in a Middle-Class Sector of London, 2006, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 135
In contrast to bonds of kaḅisu membership, which require ritual maintenance and can produce intense factional rivalries, and those of affines, which demand ongoing exchanges, unmediated relations of blood are created by nothing more than physical procreation. […] People's ability to swivel between these two rhetorical possibilities reflects the inherent tension that lies between affines, who are both others and extensions of oneself.
1997, Webb Keane, Signs of Recognition: Powers and Hazards of Representation in an Indonesian Society, University of California Press, page 51
For the Cubeo the Vekürüwá and Okómiwa were, as they say, designated to be their affines, in a manner that was calculated to emphasize their similarities rather than the formal differences that set contemporary intermarriages apart. I suspect that Cubeo themselves sense that an excessive intimacy with the contingent of affines may have been suitable for a formative period of still ambiguous distinctions, but not for the real social world.
2004, Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought, Columbia University Press, page 64
third-person singular simple present affines, present participle affining, simple past and past participle affined
To refine. examples