adequateness

Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Legal.

Related to adequateness: reassign

ad·e·quate

(ăd′ĭ-kwĭt)

adj.

Sufficient to satisfy a requirement or meet a need. See Synonyms at sufficient.

[Latin adaequātus, past participle of adaequāre, to equalize : ad-, ad- + aequāre, to make equal, from aequus, equal.]

ad′e·qua·cy (-kwə-sē), ad′e·quate·ness n.

ad′e·quate·ly adv.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

adequateness

(ˈædɪkwətnəs)

the quality of being adequate

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

adequateness - the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"

adequacy

satisfactoriness - the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement

Mentioned in ?

References in periodicals archive ?

The fairness and reasonableness (or adequateness) of licensing terms for SEPs should be determined in light of this twofold rationale and should also take into consideration the dynamic nature of standardization.

ENCOURAGING FRAND-LY NEGOTIATIONS: A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO ALLOWING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF IN CASES INVOLVING FRAND-ENCUMBERED STANDARD-ESSENTIAL PATENTS

As each relationship in our research framework was significant, this indicates that environmental values, concern, and awareness play a vital role in explicating intention, and the adequateness of the three dimensions of cognitive determinants in young vacationers' sustainable tourism behavior was demonstrated.

Determinants of young vacationers' recycling and conservation behavior when traveling

Third, we evaluated the adequateness of the Principal Component Analysis according to the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) statistics, which evaluates the variables' correlations and partial correlations with an index from 0 to 1, and the Bartlett's sphericity test, which test the null hypothesis that the correlation matrix of the data is an identity matrix.

A Statistical Factor Asset Pricing Model Versus the 4-Factor Model/Modelo Estatistico de Aprecamento de Ativos Versus o Modelo de Quatro Fatores

In general, Shari'ah audit is expected to perform a value added service that examines operational activities, financial recording and reporting, and adequateness of policies and procedures of IFIs.

Ensuring good governance

So many criterions give an opportunity to look at the VaR forecasting quality from different perspectives: fulfilling regulatory requirements (Basel traffic light test), forecasting adequateness (Kupiec test, Christoffersen test and Dynamic Quantile test), effectiveness of methods (cost functions) and methods superiority (Diebold-Marino test).

COMPARISON OF SEMI-PARAMETRIC AND BENCHMARK VALUE-AT-RISK MODELS IN SEVERAL TIME PERIODS WITH DIFFERENT VOLATILITY LEVELS

These results may aid cultural policy makers in evaluating the consistency and adequateness of their strategies and funding schemes about the digitalization and Internet development of language minority media, including support for digital content consumption and interaction by users.

Internet and Social Media in European Minority Languages: Analysis of the Digitalization Process

Other common themes were: technology transference and the adequateness of particular situations, self-sufficiency, the mobilization of national populations and communities, the place of traditional knowledge and the formation of professionals who are able to plan, structure, manage and offer new ways of providing care.