categorically
relating to a category(= a type or group in a system for dividing things into similar types or groups): 类别的
The following categorical variables were used.
The categorical distinction is fairly clear.
The governmentdepartment issued a categorical denial of the report.
Can you give a categorical assurance that this will not happen?
She persisted in her categorical refusal to discuss the matter.
The methodology entails converting key targets and performance indicators into categorical variables of either 3 or 5 categories.

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categorical | American Dictionary

categorical
adjective
us/ˌkæt̬·ɪˈɡɔr·ɪ·kəl, -ˈɡɑr-/
without doubt or possibility of not being true; certain:
The president issued a categorical denial.

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Thus, even if we were measuring the correct symptoms, we could expect that our purely categorical disease would be hidden within a continuous symptom distribution.
Regular forms are thus productively generated by rules which are discrete, categorical and symbolic objects used in a specialized, innate language module.
Ironically, then, more help from categorical linguistics may be the right way to cash out a probabilistic model of linguistics.
Differences in acculturation and socioeconomic status produced high levels of intragroup variability that hindered a straightforward application of the categorical approach.
Student's test and x2 test were used for continuous and categorical data respectively.
Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.
Distinctions can be made in three, partially overlapping, categorical structures.
A co-control category is the categorical dual of a control category.
The near categorical speakers noted earlier are excluded from the analysis.
However, the composition of non-expansive functions is not non-expansive with respect to the categorical product of hom-sets.
However, it is important to note that fronting and raising are straightforward categorical phonetic adjustments.
The construction is described in full detail, without resorting to advanced categorical theoretic notions.
Of course, this does not mean avoiding categorical notions and diagrams altogether, but understanding them in the sense of the internal language.
However, it is important to underscore that second dialect acquisition is much more than simply learning categorical rules.
We give algebraic models for each of these machines, and give a categorical interpretation of each of the generalisation processes.
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