parsimony in English

noun

1

extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources.

a great tradition of public design has been shattered by government parsimony

synonyms: cheapness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penny-pinching, stinginess, minginess, tightness, tightfistedness, cheeseparing, penuriousness

noun

cheapness, miserliness, meanness, parsimoniousness, niggardliness, close-fistedness, closeness, penny-pinching, stinginess, minginess, tightness, tightfistedness, cheeseparing, penuriousness
closeness, meanness, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, tightfistedness, tightness, niggardness
thrift, parsimoniousness, penny-pinching

Use "parsimony" in a sentence

1. He also discusses the process of parsimony in Cladogram construction

2. 1 Due to official parsimony only the one machine was built.

3. Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct.

4. Other articles where Cladistics is discussed: evolution: Maximum parsimony methods: …parsimony methods are related to Cladistics, a very formalistic theory of taxonomic classification, extensively used with morphological and paleontological data

5. 6 Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigality and misconduct.

6. Cursoriality and quadrupedality indices were calculated for each node using squared change parsimony

7. 12 A classic example comes from comedian Jack Benny , famous for his parsimony.

8. Copepod phylogeny: a reconsideration of Huys & Boxshall's "parsimony versus homology".

9. 10 Occasional visitors could be forgiven for thinking parsimony is a typically German trait.

10. Synonyms for Cheapness include stinginess, miserliness, parsimony, closeness, penuriousness, tightness, pinching, tightfistedness, cheeseparing and meanness

11. 17 Combined with the human tyrosinase gene sequence, the gene tree was constructed using parsimony method.

12. 5 With encouragement, a competent amateur can diagnose species and varieties without resort to parsimony analysis.

13. 2 The gap between government parsimony and the needs of sport is filled by commercial sponsorship.

14. Isn't Mr Peter Lilley's enthusiastic parsimony rather more in tune with the tenor of the times?

15. 15 It is still using the traditional straight design, overall design parsimony appears to be agile.

16. Noteworthy is the algorithm to measure cross-species transmission based on an approach called maximum parsimony.

17. 11 However much Asians trumpet the value of parsimony, their governments any in opening the fiscal sluices.

18. 5 Isn't Mr Peter Lilley's enthusiastic parsimony rather more in tune with the tenor of the times?

19. BPA ( brooks parsimony analysis ) is one of the most popular methods in the study of historical biogeography.

20. 4 But also, the principle of parsimony should be used to keep the research down to essentials.

21. 13 With encouragement,(www.Sentencedict.com) a competent amateur can diagnose species and varieties without resort to parsimony analysis.

22. 21 A fantastic story, like a horse with wings, flies in the face of the principle of parsimony.

23. 8 BPA ( brooks parsimony analysis ) is one of the most popular methods in the study of historical biogeography.

24. 20 It was for religious and temperamental reasons - Puritanism and parsimony - that Alfred kept his family in such austerity.

25. 3 Using distance, parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods the overall picture of eukaryote small-subunit rRNA phylogeny remains unchanged.

26. 7 Principle of Parsimony: Write large components only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.

27. 19 It is especially convenient for rooting the unrooted trees obtained from parsimony, distance or maximum likelihood tree-building methods.

28. 1.—Phylogenetic relationships of Otx genes within Craniates.A–C, Phylogenetic trees calculated using distance, maximum-parsimony and maximum-likelihood methods, respectively

29. 14 So when they held dinner-parties Scarlet skimped on the smoked salmon, and Brian rebuked her for her graceless parsimony.

30. 16 We studied patterns of distribution and relationships among distributional areas of Tetrigidae insects in China using parsimony analysis of endemism (PAE).

31. 18 A little later Norton reminded them of Hamilton's Law of Parsimony, the application of which they immediately claimed for every reasoning process of theirs.

32. Cladograms Paul Andersen shows you how to construct a cladogram from a group of organisms using shared characteristics. He also discusses the process of parsimony in cladogram construction

33. 9 For the parsimony this paper presents model a polynomial time greedy algorithm and a compound algorithm that combines the greedy policy with the branch-and-bound strategy in a uniform framework.

34. ‘Maximum parsimony analysis of this latter data set also recovered monophyly of living amphibians and favored a frog + salamander (Batrachia) relationship.’ ‘For example, Batrachia and Gymnophiona are sister taxa within the ancestral taxon, Amphibia (or ‘Lissamphibia’ in many systems).’

35. For those who distinguish Cladistics from phylogenetics, Cladistics refers only to the methods by which the branching patterns are generated (e.g., parsimony or maximum likelihood) while phylogenetics refers to the interpretation of such diagrams as historical patterns.

36. Different Allomorphs can be explained fully by the phonological context, by invoking general phonological properties of the language.!So, no special morphological devices are required in order to explain the distribution, and parsimony suggests they should not be employed here

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