head counting

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Transitioning from dot to line labeling also improved wheat head counting accuracy, an important role in crop yield estimation, suggesting broader applications for convex-shaped objects in diverse contexts.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

This isn’t just a matter of head counting.

From Slate • Jul. 9, 2014

Sports looking down in that check beaming like she has a halo around her head, counting the zeroes in front of the decimal point.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2011

In Jamaica, for example, the Ras Tafarian sect believes not only that Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie is God and Ethiopia the Promised Land but also that head counting is forbidden by the Scriptures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tally lifted her head and whistled, then huddled in one corner of the shaft, hands covering her head, counting.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld