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Definition of spurious

Spurious
Spurious Spu"ri*ous, a. [L. spurius.] 1. Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate. 2. Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue. ``Her spurious firstborn.' --Milton. Spurious primary, or Spurious quill (Zo["o]l.), the first, or outer, primary quill when rudimentary or much reduced in size, as in certain singing birds. Spurious wing (Zo["o]l.), the bastard wing, or alula. Syn: Counterfeit; false; adulterate; supposititious; fictitious; bastard. -- Spu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Spu"ri*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of spurious from wikipedia

- Look up spurious in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Spurious may refer to: Spurious relationship in statistics Spurious emission or spurious tone in...
- In statistics, a spurious relationship or spurious correlation is a mathematical relationship in which two or more events or variables are ****ociated...
- In computing, a spurious wakeup occurs when a thread wakes up from waiting on a condition variable without the variable being satisfied. It is referred...
- In radio communication, a spurious emission is any component of a radiated radio frequency signal the complete suppression of which would not impair the...
- Spurious languages are languages that have been reported as existing in re****ble works, while other research has reported that the language in question...
- In electronics (radio in particular), a spurious tone (also known as an interfering tone, a continuous tone or a spur) denotes a tone in an electronic...
- In statistics, spurious correlation of ratios is a form of spurious correlation that arises between ratios of absolute measurements which themselves are...
- Spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) is the strength ratio of the fundamental signal to the strongest spurious signal in the output. It is also defined as...
- Spurious trip level (STL) is defined as a discrete level for specifying the spurious trip requirements of safety functions to be allocated to safety systems...
- precision (also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision and spurious precision) occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies...