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  • noun Plural form of prover.

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Examples

  • There are the provers who observe everything and want to prove the right way to do something but spend a lot of time debating and not much time doing anything.

    How Do YOU Roll? 2009

  • There are the provers who observe everything and want to prove the right way to do something but spend a lot of time debating and not much time doing anything.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Examples of this activity might include the design and analysis of programming, specification and architectural description languages; the construction and optimisation of compilers, interpreters, theorem provers and type inference systems; the invention of logical frameworks and the design of embedded systems, and much more.

    The Philosophy of Computer Science Turner, Raymond 2008

  • Other, research-oriented, theorem provers true to the spirit of NK exist (Pelletier 1998) but are rare.

    Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005

  • As a rule, automated theorem provers lack such rich knowledge and attempt to construct proofs from first principles by the application of elementary deduction rules.

    Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005

  • There is also a competition among automated theorem provers held regularly at the CADE conference (Pelletier, Sutcliffe and Suttner 2002); the problems for the competition are selected from the TPTP library.

    Automated Reasoning Portoraro, Frederic 2005

  • It has been found that when taken experimentally in varying quantities by healthy provers, many single medicines will produce symptoms precisely according with those of definite recognized maladies; and the same herbs, if administered curatively, in doses sufficiently small to avoid producing their toxical effects, will speedily and surely restore the patient to health by dispelling the said maladies.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • It has been found by healthy provers that stronger, and larger doses of any preparation of the herb will induce or aggravate one or another of these bleedings.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • In like manner healthy human provers have become hoarse of voice through taking the plant, and troubled with a severe cough, accompanied with the expectoration of abundant yellow mucus, just as in tubercular mischief beginning at the windpipe.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • In some of the provers active inflammatory congestion of the right lung ensued, with turgidity of the liver.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

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