When Artificial Intelligence Surpasses Humans: The Future of the Intelligence Explosion and Human Destiny

noun

1. the activity of managing or exerting control over something

e.g. the control of the mob by the police was admirable

2. (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc

e.g. the timing and control of his movements were unimpaired
he had lost control of his sphincters

3. a mechanism that controls the operation of a machine

e.g. the speed controller on his turntable was not working properly
I turned the controls over to her

Synonym: controller

4. discipline in personal and social activities

e.g. he was a model of polite restraint
she never lost control of herself

Synonym: restraint

5. power to direct or determine

e.g. under control

6. great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity

e.g. a good command of French

Synonym: commandmastery

7. a standard against which other conditions can be compared in a scientific experiment

e.g. the control condition was inappropriate for the conclusions he wished to draw

Synonym: control condition

8. the economic policy of controlling or limiting or curbing prices or wages etc.

e.g. they wanted to repeal all the legislation that imposed economic controls

9. a spiritual agency that is assumed to assist the medium during a seance

10. a relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another

e.g. measures for the control of disease
they instituted controls over drinking on campus

11. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

e.g. her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her

Synonym: dominanceascendanceascendenceascendancyascendency

noun

1. a semiconductor device capable of amplification

Synonym: junction transistorelectronic transistor

noun

1. an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population

e.g. the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English

Synonym: substratum

2. any stratum or layer lying underneath another

Synonym: substratum

3. a surface on which an organism grows or is attached

e.g. the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants

Synonym: substratum

4. the substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment

noun

1. (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)

2. a person who is unusual

Synonym: unusual person

3. deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule

Synonym: anomalousness

noun

1. the act of rendering optimal

e.g. the simultaneous optimization of growth and profitability
in an optimization problem we seek values of the variables that lead to an optimal value of the function that is to be optimized
to promote the optimization and diversification of agricultural products

Synonym: optimisation

noun

1. a standard or typical example

e.g. he is the prototype of good breeding
he provided America with an image of the good father

Synonym: prototypeepitomeimage

2. the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time

e.g. he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm

3. the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)

Synonym: substitution class

4. systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word