Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Marked by, requiring, or involving participation, especially affording the opportunity for individual participation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Participating.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affording the opportunity for individual participation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Open to
participation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affording the opportunity for individual participation
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Examples
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
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"NASA's Mars program is a prime example of what we call participatory exploration," NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden said.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The CONARU organized a tour to all the campuses to hear how other students made their decisions and to explain the model I just described, which we call participatory democracy.
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Gilles Frydman, a member of the journal's editorial board who was pulled into participatory medicine because of life-threatening complications his wife had during pregnancy and also later when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, coined the term participatory medicine and wrote the
Scientific American 2009
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While it isn't that unusual for assistant coaches to help run opposing offenses for isolated segments of practice, it is a bit odd for them to take part in most of the drills—an exercise that could be described as "participatory coaching."
Running Drills With a College Legend Scott Cacciola 2011
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If you factor in participatory Web activities such as clicking on a box in an ad to see a price, or filling in a box entry with personal data such as your zip code, the treasure trove of advertising data collection gets even richer for the advertiser.
How Should I.S.P.s Tell You if They Want to Track Your Surfing? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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