| Adaptors | persons that prefer to do things better |
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| Adult and continuing education | Education provided to mature students, especially during their working lives. |
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| Analogical reasoning | basic human reasoning process, based on a fundamental proceeding of human thinking, to remember similarities and to transfer them to a given problem or situation to find an adequate solution. |
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| Analogy | correspondence, similarity, correspondence in function; relation existing between two things, situations, processes which go together in structure or function. |
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| Analysis |
- analysis of statistical figures
- The whole is described not merely in terms of its parts but most significantly by the pattern that connects them
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| Assess: | Certify the size, appraise |
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| Attribute | essential, “normal” characteristic of a thing. For innovation we have to question those “normal” characteristics and we have to ask if other solutions (material, form, function) can substitute an attribute. |
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| Audit | logistical or economical control, confirm or control of accounts |
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