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robustness

noun as in beef

noun as in brawn

noun as in fitness

Strongest matches

Weak match

noun as in muscularity

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The researchers found that strong selection was able to promote the accumulation of foldability-improving mutations, and that some of these mutations increased the mutational robustness of the proteins, providing protection against harmful mutations.

The biological ideas of robustness, evolvability, and complexity resemble the tactical ideas of “Gote,” “Aji,” and “Seki” from Go by virtue of their common ground in combinatorial rule systems.

Under the it-from-qubit hypothesis, the properties of space-time — its robustness, its symmetries — essentially come from the way 0s and 1s are braided together.

Turns out, the ballot’s confusing design is less a weakness of America’s participatory democracy than a sign of its robustness.

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It was nice to see a theoretically led work that understands and promotes the idea that it is robustness of the system that seems to be the evolutionary driving force.

Mere physical robustness is of far less account in carrying one through an extended course of study than prudence and good sense.

The fever might have gone the worse with her because of her over-fed robustness; at any rate it went badly enough.

Looking back at him, what strikes one most was his singularly boyish cheerfulness and robustness of temperament.

Craven, fresh from his successes at golf, looked full of the open-air spirit and the robustness of the galloping twenties.

There was a certain pleasant, natural robustness of spirit, and something of a feudal free-and-easiness.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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