Embase
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- embase To lower; degrade; depress or hollow out.
- embase To lower in value; debase; vitiate; deprave; impair.
- embase To lower in nature, rank, or estimation; degrade.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- v.t Embase em-bāz′ (obs.) to bring down: to degrade
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Pref. em-, + base, a. or v. t.: cf. OF. embaissier,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Em and base.
In literature:
At thy fair hands who wonders not at all, Wonder itself through ignorance embases?
"Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles" by Thomas Lodge and Giles Fletcher
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In news:
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In science:
An important property and possibly an advantage of the CMA-ES over the EMbased algorithm is that the CMA-ES employs the natural gradient of the expected fitness J (·) itself.
Theoretical foundation for CMA-ES from information geometric perspective
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