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Meaning of "punctualist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PUNCTUALIST

punctualist  [ˈpʌŋktʃʊəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PUNCTUALIST

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determiner
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Punctualist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PUNCTUALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Punctualism

Punctualism (commonly also called "pointillism" or "point music") is a style of musical composition prevalent in Europe between 1949 and 1955 "whose structures are predominantly effected from tone to tone, without superordinate formal conceptions coming to bear" (Essl 1989, 93). In simpler terms: "music that consists of separately formed particles—however complexly these may be composed— punctual music, as opposed to linear, or group-formed, or mass-formed music" (Stockhausen 1998, 452, bolding in the source). This was accomplished by assigning to each note in a composition values drawn from scales of pitch, duration, dynamics, and attack characteristics, resulting in a "stronger individualizing of separate tones" (Frisius 1994). Another important factor was maintaining discrete values in all parameters of the music. Punctual dynamics, for example mean that all dynamic degrees are fixed; one point will be linked directly to another on the chosen scale, without any intervening transition or gesture. Line-dynamics, on the other hand, involve the transitions from one given amplitude to another: crescendo, decrescendo and their combinations.

Definition of punctualist in the English dictionary

The definition of punctualist in the dictionary is one who is concerned with points of conduct.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PUNCTUALIST


actualist
ˈæktʃʊəlɪst
analyst
ˈænəlɪst
conceptualist
kənˈseptʃʊəlɪst
dualist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
duellist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
factualist
ˈfæktʃʊəlɪst
gradualist
ˈɡrædjʊəlɪst
homosexualist
ˌhɒməˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
individualist
ˌɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəlɪst
intellectualist
ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəlɪst
mutualist
ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪst
pansexualist
pænˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
perpetualist
pəˈpetʃʊəlɪst
sensualist
ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst
sexualist
ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
spiritualist
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəlɪst
textualist
ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪst
virtualist
ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪst
visualist
ˈvɪzjʊəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PUNCTUALIST

punctual
punctuality
punctually
punctuate
punctuation
punctuation mark
punctuationist
punctuative
punctuator
punctulate
punctulation
punctule
punctum
puncturable
puncturation
puncture
puncture repair kit
puncture vine
puncture wound
puncturer

WORDS THAT END LIKE PUNCTUALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of punctualist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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punctualist
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PUNCTUALIST»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUNCTUALIST»

Discover the use of punctualist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to punctualist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pointing at the Moon Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy
Since a punctualist (or an episodic) believes that the self does not last for long, a punctualist who is also a selfist has pretty much the same problems as a reductionist in justifying future-oriented egoistic concern. Future pearls on the string, ...
Jay L. Garfield, Tom J.F. Tillemans, Mario D'Amato, 2009
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Buddhism as Philosophy: An Introduction
There is greater overall pleasure and happiness, and less overall pain and suffering, when we think of ourselves as persons than when we think of ourselves in the Punctualist way. When these present skandhas identify with future skandhas ...
Mark Siderits, 2007
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Nothingness in Asian Philosophy
But the hand is elsewhere than where the foot is, so by the Punctualist's principles, only the foot and not the hand has a reason to act. Of course, the Punctualist will claim that it is I, the owner of both foot and hand, who has the pain and so has ...
JeeLoo Liu, Douglas Berger, 2014
4
Seeing Dark Things : The Philosophy of Shadows: The ...
In addition to denying that shadows rotate, the punctualist denies that shadows move from place to place. Indeed, the punctualist denies that shadows grow or change shape. The punctualist must even deny that shadows sustain their shapes ...
Roy Sorensen Professor of Philosophy Dartmouth College, 2008
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Plato Etc: Problems of Philosophy and their Resolution
... states,asto theexistence of my body or anothermind frommyego presentcentric impression(s) ofa punctualist atomist self disengaged from practice. But Humeabounds in interpretiveantinomies. He is the founding father of modern positivism.
Roy Bhaskar, 2009
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Shakespearean Metaphysics
One reason why Shakespeare deserves to be placed in the company of Whitehead, Bergson and Spinoza, each ofwhom is a significant critic of Cartesian metaphysics and the punctualist worldview, is his refusal to make the being of a ...
Michael Witmore, 2008
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Evolutionary Economics: Post-Schumpeterian Contributions
Even with some bending of Schumpeter's theses, many obvious formulations put forward by the punctualist interpretation have no counterpart in Schumpeter's theses. Furthermore, there is a formulation in Schumpeter ('changes in the model of ...
Esben Sloth Andersen, 2013
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Dialectic: The Pulse of Freedom
Thereis no need,however,to deny Hegel theaccolade of articulating dialectical contradictions if we reject, asI shall argue we should,a punctualist view of time. We can then say that what Hegel achieves, i.e. the copresence of absence and ...
Roy Bhaskar, 2008
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Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society
The moment is a punctualist form; it is over in a flash, though its effects may linger . What we are approaching is a family of experiences predicated on the condition of brevity. This much seems clear: moments become more precise, more ...
Sue Zemka, 2011
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Individual development and social change: explanatory analysis
The Principle of Stabilization and the Law of Evolutionary Potential closely parallel basic concepts in the punctuated equilibria model developed by Eldredge and Gould. The Principle of Stabilization is similar to the punctualist tenet of genetic ...
John R. Nesselroade, Alexander von Eye, 1985

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