demeaned
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Debased; degraded; lowly.
- One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they.1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79:
- Antiope is the more demeaned that she was violated by so outrageous a figure of ribaldry and degradation.2010, Aida Besancon Spencer, Donna F.G. Hailson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, The Goddess Revival, page 71:
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- Wearing make-up made her feel "very degraded and very demeaned."2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, page 20:
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Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Having had the mean subtracted from all values.
- The 0-crossings in a demeaned signal can indicate the dominant frequency component in a signal.2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68:
- A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) .2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93:
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- To pursue the analogy between a driftless random walk and a Wiener process a bit further, consider a “demeaned standard random walk" which is constructed from a standard driftless random walk by subtracting the sample mean.2011, Fumio Hayashi, Econometrics, page 568:
- Derived terms
- undemeaned