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reference
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mention: a remark that calls attention to something or someone; "she made frequent mention of her promotion"; "there was no mention of it"; "the speaker made several references to his wife" citation: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" reference point: an indicator that orients you generally; "it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved" reference book: a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts; "he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic" character: a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability; "requests for character references are all to often answered evasively" the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos" the act of referring or consulting; "reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer" a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to; "he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes" refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work"
Ãâó: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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reference dose
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Oral reference dose. EPA defines a reference dose as an estimate, with uncertainty spanning perhaps an order of magnitude, of a daily oral exposure to the human population (including sensitive subgroups) that is likely to be without an appreciable risk of deleterious effects during a lifetime.
Ãâó: www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/background/gloss...
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reference
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(noun) a source of information; (verb) to identify and record a source of information.
Ãâó: www.reefed.edu.au/glossary/r.html
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reference dose
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A dose of a pesticide that the US EPA considers safe for regular daily consumption by humans without adverse health effects. Generated by taking the NOAEL from animal studies and adding uncertainty factors to account for differences between animals and humans, and susceptibility within the human population.
Ãâó: www.nrdc.org/health/kids/farm/glos.asp
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reference
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A published reference which establishes or describes the standard.
Ãâó: www.fws.gov/stand/standards/defterms.html
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