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a⋅i

1[ah-ee]
–noun, plural a⋅is [ah-eez] .
a three-toed sloth, Bradypus tridactylus, inhabiting forests of southern Venezuela, the Guianas, and northern Brazil, having a diet apparently restricted to the leaves of the trumpet-tree, and sounding a high-pitched cry when disturbed.

Origin:
1685–95; < Pg < Tupi

ai

2[ahy]
–interjection
(used as an utterance of pity, pain, anguish, etc.)

Amnesty International

–noun
an independent worldwide organization working against human-rights violations and for the release of persons imprisoned for political or religious dissent; Nobel peace prize 1977. Abbreviation: AI, A.I.

artificial insemination

–noun
the injection of semen into the vagina or uterus by means of a syringe or the like rather than by coitus. Abbreviation: AI

Origin:
1895–1900

artificial intelligence

–noun
the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to learning and decision making in humans, as by an expert system, a program for CAD or CAM, or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems. Abbreviation: AI, A.I.

Origin:
1965–70
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ai 1   (ī)   
n.  See sloth.

[Portuguese, of Tupian origin.]
ai 2  
abbr.  airborne intercept
AI  
abbr.  
  1. artificial insemination

  2. artificial intelligence

artificial insemination  
n.   Abbr. AI
Introduction of semen into the vagina or uterus without sexual contact.
artificial intelligence  
n.   Abbr. AI
  1. The ability of a computer or other machine to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence.

  2. The branch of computer science concerned with the development of machines having this ability.

sloth   (slôth, slōth, slŏth)   
n.  
  1. Aversion to work or exertion; laziness; indolence.

  2. Any of various slow-moving, arboreal, edentate mammals of the family Bradypodidae of South and Central America, having long hooklike claws by which they hang upside down from tree branches and feeding on leaves, buds, and fruits, especially:

    1. A member of the genus Bradypus, having three long-clawed toes on each forefoot. Also called ai1, three-toed sloth.

    2. A member of the genus Choloepus, having two toes on each forefoot. Also called two-toed sloth, unau.

  3. A company of bears. See Synonyms at flock1.


[Middle English slowth, from slow, slow; see slow.]
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: AI
Function: abbreviation
artificial insemination

Main Entry: artificial insemination
Function: noun
: introduction of semen into the uterus or oviduct by other than natural means
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

AI abbr.
artificial insemination

artificial insemination n.
Abbr. AI
The introduction of semen into the vagina or uterus without sexual contact.

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Science Dictionary
AI  
  1. Abbreviation of artificial insemination

  2. Abbreviation of artificial intelligence


artificial insemination   (är'tə-fĭsh'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
The introduction of semen into the vagina or uterus without sexual contact.
artificial intelligence  
The ability of a computer or other machine to perform actions thought to require intelligence. Among these actions are logical deduction and inference, creativity, the ability to make decisions based on past experience or insufficient or conflicting information, and the ability to understand spoken language.

Our Living Language  : The goal of research on artificial intelligence is to understand the nature of thought and intelligent behavior and to design intelligent systems. A computer is not really intelligent; it just follows directions very quickly. At the same time, it is the speed and memory of modern computers that allows researchers to manage the huge quantities of data necessary to model human thought and behavior. An intelligent machine would be more flexible than a computer and would engage in the kind of "thinking" that people actually do. An example is vision. In theory, a network of sensors combined with systems for interpreting the data could produce the kind of pattern recognition that we take for granted as seeing and understanding what we see. In fact, developing software that can recognize subtle differences in objects (such as those we use to recognize human faces) is very difficult. The recognition of differences that we can perceive without deliberate effort would require massive amounts of data and elaborate guidelines to be recognized by an artificial intelligence system. According to the famous Turing Test, proposed in 1950 by British mathematician and logician Alan Turing, a machine would be considered intelligent if it could convince human observers that another human, rather than a machine, was answering their questions in conversation.
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Computing Dictionary

AI
artificial intelligence

ai networking
The country code for Anguilla.
(1999-01-27)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

Ai

ruins. (1.) One of the royal cities of the Canaanites (Josh. 10:1; Gen. 12:8; 13:3). It was the scene of Joshua's defeat, and afterwards of his victory. It was the second Canaanite city taken by Israel (Josh. 7:2-5; 8:1-29). It lay rebuilt and inhibited by the Benjamites (Ezra 2:28; Neh. 7:32; 11:31). It lay to the east of Bethel, "beside Beth-aven." The spot which is most probably the site of this ancient city is Haiyan, 2 miles east from Bethel. It lay up the Wady Suweinit, a steep, rugged valley, extending from the Jordan valley to Bethel. (2.) A city in the Ammonite territory (Jer. 49:3). Some have thought that the proper reading of the word is Ar (Isa. 15:1).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
ai
airborne intercept
AI
  1. adapter interface

  2. Amnesty International

  3. aortic insufficiency

  4. artificial insemination

  5. artificial intelligence

  6. Associate Investigator

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