embodiment

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It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning.

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  1. noun The act of embodying or the state of being embodied.
  2. noun One that embodies: "The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history” (Woodrow Wilson).

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  • And the other thing about this embodiment is that there's kind of what I call the McLuhan reversal. —  Kevin Kelly on the next 5,000 days of the web
  • TSM combinations that are valid create a whole new embodiment which is taken to be prior art (and thus will have inherent features) or 2. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • His two-day beard would make him look scruffy and disreputable in a way that could only be described as the embodiment of hotness, his long legs encased in comfortable, loose fitting jeans, his combat boots exchanged for brown hikers. —  Wraithbait
  • It looks at deep philosophical issues of "embodiment" - whether you need to move around in the world to acquire language or the jargon of a specialist field-that have major implications for the field of artificial intelligence and computer learning. —  The Chicago Blog
  • In another exemplary embodiment, the host machine can be a laptop computer and the wireless or mobile accessory devices can be any of wireless or mobile devices proximally located to the laptop computer and adapted to communicate wirelessly with the laptop computer. —  MacNN | The Macintosh News Network
 

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/ɛmˈbɑdɪmənt/
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