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Artificial intelligence; the capacity of computers or other machines to exhibit or simulate intelligent behaviour; the field of study concerned with…. artificial intelligence, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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The Oxford English Dictionary was originally published in fascicles between 1884 and 1928. A one-volume supplement was published in 1933, and four further supplementary volumes were published between 1972 and 1986.
The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes more than 1,000 new and revised words, phrases, and senses, including spidey sense, final frontier, and freshers’ flu. Learn more about the words added to the OED this quarter in our new words notes by OED Executive Editor, Craig Leyland: Were your spidey senses tingling?
With reference to a thing: good or safe condition, ability to flourish or prosper. 1573. Some are so necessary that the whole can haue no being without them: some are very necessary partes to the well being of an whole, and yet not so necessary but that it may haue a being without them.
There are 24 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun love, six of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. love has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
