Person

  • 1Person — Per son, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See {Per }, and cf. {Parson}.] 1. A character or… …

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  • 2Person — Per son, v. t. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. [Obs.] Milton. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 3Person — The term person is used in common sense to mean an individual human being. But in the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, it means the presence of certain characteristics that grant a certain legal, ethical, or moral standing. For… …

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  • 4person — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French persone, from Latin persona actor s mask, character in a play, person, probably from Etruscan phersu mask, from Greek prosōpa, plural of prosōpon face, mask more at prosopopoeia Date: 13th century …

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  • 5person — See: IN PERSON …

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  • 6person — See: IN PERSON …

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  • 7Person Centred Planning — Person Centered Planning(PCP) is a process designed to assist someone to make plans for their future. It is used most often as a life planning model to enable individuals with disabilities or otherwise requiring support to increase their personal …

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  • 8Person-to-person lending — (also known as peer to peer lending, peer to peer investing, and social lending; abbreviated frequently as P2P lending) is a certain breed of financial transaction (primarily lending and borrowing, though other more complicated transactions can… …

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  • 9Person-centered psychotherapy — Person Centered Therapy (PCT), also known as Client centered therapy or Rogerian Psychotherapy, was developed by the humanist psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1940s and 1950s. The basic elements of Rogerian therapy involve showing congruence… …

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  • 10Person-fit analysis — is a technique for determining if the person s results on a given test are valid.The purpose of a person fit analysis is to detect item score vectors that are unlikely given a hypothesized test theory model such as item response theory, or… …

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