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Definition of Copulas
1. copula [n] - See also: copula
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copulas
Literary usage of Copulas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of Continental, Especially by Hendrik Poutsma (1904)
"nen, 1 jj ken, etc. among the copulas when they are immediately ... copulas OF
THE FIRST KIND. 4. The principal copula of the first group is to be. ..."
2. The English Language: An Introduction to the Principles which Govern Its by Frederick Manley, William Nicholas Hailmann (1902)
"You learned that these copulas are forms of the verb Be. ... These, too, serve
chiefly as copulas between a subject and its predicate; but they have some ..."
3. The Organ and Its Construction: A Systematic Hand-book for Organists, Organ by Johann Julius Seidel (1852)
"THE copulas. The copula is that contrivance by which two or more key-boards ...
There are various kinds of manual-copulas. The first is represented by fig. ..."
4. Optimality: The Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium by Javier Rojo (2006)
"The characterizations obtained in the paper represent joint distributions of
dependent random variables and their copulas as sums of [/-statistics in ..."
5. Guide Books to English by Charles Benajah Gilbert (1912)
"XXXV copulas In the sentence, " Every day is a fresh beginning," is connects or
couples ... Intransitive verbs of incomplete predication are called copulas. ..."
6. A Treatise on Algebra by James Edward Oliver, Lucien Augustus Wait, George William Jones (1887)
"copulas AND STATEMENTS. Two numbers are equal when, in every combination which
contains either of them, the other may take its place without changing the ..."