Meaning of pursuit in English

If, however, pursuit and perception have different motion-integration pathways, the pursuit response to image motion will not be tightly correlated with perceptual coherence.

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Precision of the motion direction signals underlying pursuit eye-movements and perception in humans.

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If solo practitioners have more time than patients, pursuit of income might lead them to perform unnecessary services.

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Furthermore, even for scholars who are dubious about the prospects for generalization or uninterested in its pursuit, theoretical explorations of historical causation remain important.

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The pursuit of this goal has to be constrained, though: among the constraints are ontological, pragmatic, and epistemological considerations.

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At this stage of the argument, we should turn our attention to the epistemological strife accompanying the professional pursuit of charismatic authority.

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Certainly both are ruthless in pursuit of their agendas.

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They are not afraid to risk ridicule in the pursuit of true representation.

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Stability is not only hard to g rasp, its pursuit is self-defeating.

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Unlike nursing, for example, career structures for doctors have long supported the simultaneous pursuit of academic research activity alongside practice.

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Realists emphasize new or continuing security concerns, and prescribe unilateral action and the deployment of traditional power politics in the pursuit of state interests.

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They were thus incompatible with politeness, which was allied with the metropolitan and cosmopolitan and the pursuit of a general culture.

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Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good.

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As development advances, it will naturally intersect to an increasing degree with efforts in the pursuit of 'virtual reality'.

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Collocations with pursuit

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academic pursuit

The inquiry into an emerging 'regional' architecture can co-exist as both an academic pursuit and a quest of practice.

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active pursuit

It is not the case that a good life is one in which people must be constantly engaged in the active pursuit of goals.

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aggressive pursuit

In addition, the aggressive pursuit of trade liberalisation by the military government after 1976 led to a sharp contraction of the industrial labour force.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

娛樂, 嗜好，消遣，娛樂, 追蹤…

Meaning of pursuit in English

pursuit noun (ACTIVITY)

pursuit noun (FOLLOWING)

pursuit noun (ATTEMPT)

pursuit | American Dictionary

pursuit noun (ACT OF FOLLOWING)

pursuit noun (ATTEMPT)

pursuit noun (ACTIVITY)

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