| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. With confidence.[Websters]
2. In a hysterical, neural, nervous or skittish manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective fiducial.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (fiducial) | 1. Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "fiducial power".[Wordnet]. 2. Used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement; "a fiducial point".[Wordnet]. 3. Based on trust.[Wordnet]. 4. Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm.[Websters]. 5. Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power.[Websters]. 6. Being trustworthy, trusty or trustful.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Adjective base of the adverb fiducially.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FIDUCIALLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FIDUCIALLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] With confidence. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Common Expressions: fiducial
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fiducial edge | (Astron. & Surv.), the straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: fiducial
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fiducial axes | Environment | The imaginary lines defined by opposite fiducial marks on a photograph. The x axis is considered to be the axis nearly parallel with the flight lines. (references) | |
| Fiducial distribution | Statistics | A distribution of a parameter required for fiducial inference about that parameter. It is not a probability distribution in the customary sense, but is derived from the distribution of estimators containing all the relevant information in the sample. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial error | Meteorology & Standards | The ratio of the absolute error to the fiducial value. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial inference | Statistics | A type of statistical inference based on fiducial distribution, introduced by R. A. Fisher (1930). The object of the inference is to make probabilistic statements about the values of unknown parameters and to that extend it resembles the theory of confidence intervals. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial interva | Mining | A measure of confidence in precision of a set of sample data. For a given numerical value of fiducial interval, the number of samples required from a given deposit to give an accurate measure of its value can bedetermined. (references) | |
| Fiducial limits | Statistics | In fiducial inference, limits between which a parameter is considered to lie. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial mark | Aerospace | An internally generated identification mark on a film; two or more of these are generally used for orienting a film for reading, and for determining the geometric center of the film.The L-shaped corner marks and the + mark near the picture center, which are on the focal plane of the Tiros vidicon camera are fiducial marks. Their appearance on the image permits various calibrations such as determination of the degree of enlargement needed to fit the picture to the rectification grids, etc. (references) | |
| Fiducial mark | Geography | Index or point used as basin of reference. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial mark | Military | See collimating mark. (references) | |
| Fiducial mark | Mining | In photogrammetry, an index or point used as a basis of reference; one of usually four index marks connected with a camera lens (as on the metal frame that encloses the negative) that form an image on the negative or print such that lines drawn between opposing points intersect at and thereby define the principal point of the photograph.Syn:collimating mark. (references) | |
| Fiducial mark | Transportation | Physical points (holes, surfaces, marks or indentations) on the vehicle body as defined by the manufacturer. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Fiducial marks | Environment | Those marks, which define the axes whose intersection fixes the principal point of the photograph. See FIDUCIAL AXES. (references) | |
| Fiducial marks | Forestry | Index marks, usually four, which are rigidly connected with the camera lens through the camera body and which form images on the negative and usually define the principal point of the photograph. Also marks, usually four in number, in any instrument which define the axes whose intersection fixes the principal point of a photograph and fulfills the requirements of interior orientation (Source: Slama, C.C., editor. 1980. Manual of photogrammetry, 4th ed. American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Falls Church, Va.). cf. collimating marks. (references) | |
| Fiducial marks | Geography | Index marks superimposed on an aerial photograph negative to define its principal point. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| FIDUCIAL MARKS | Geological | A set of four marks located in the corners or edge-centered, or both, of a photographic image. These marks are exposed within the camera onto the original film and are used to define the frame of reference for spatial measurements on aerial photographs. Opposite fiducial marks connected, intersect at approximately the image center of the aerial photograph. (references) | |
| Fiducial time | Mining | A time marked on a record to correspond to some arbitrary time. Such marks may aid in synchronizing different records or may indicate a reference,such as a datum plane. (references) | |
| Fiducial value | Meteorology & Standards | A clearly specified conventional value to which reference is made in order to define the fiducial error. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: fiducial | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fiducial inference | 10 | Fiducial | 4 | |
| Fiducial | 4 | Fiducial inference | 10 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
