wskaźnik
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Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From wskazać + -nik. First attested in 1832.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wskaźnik m inan (related adjective wskaźnikowy)
- indicator (object that shows things on a map, drawing, etc.)
- (programming) pointer (icon that indicates the position of the pointing device, such as a mouse)
- (mathematics, statistics) coefficient (number expressing the mutual ratio of several values)
- Synonym: współczynnik
- (literary, figurative, by extension) indicator (that which is indicative of something)
- Synonym: barometr
- indicator; gauge (measuring instrument that provides information about the quantitative state of something)
- (chemistry) indicator (any of many substances, such as litmus, used to indicate the concentration of a substance, or the degree of a reaction)
- Synonym: znacznik
- (sciences) indicator (specific chemical or physical property of a substance or material)
- (economics) index, indicator (measure, such as unemployment rate, which can be used to predict economic trends)
- (obsolete) indicator (pointer finger)
- Synonym: palec wskazujący
Declension[edit]
Declension of wskaźnik
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | wskaźnik | wskaźniki |
| genitive | wskaźnika | wskaźników |
| dative | wskaźnikowi | wskaźnikom |
| accusative | wskaźnik | wskaźniki |
| instrumental | wskaźnikiem | wskaźnikami |
| locative | wskaźniku | wskaźnikach |
| vocative | wskaźniku | wskaźniki |
Trivia[edit]
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), wskaźnik is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 15 times in scientific texts, 9 times in news, 29 times in essays, 2 times in fiction, and 0 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 55 times, making it the 1182nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Franciszek Ząbkowski (1832) Teorya sztuki drukarskiéj zastosowana do praktyki[1] (in Polish), Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe, page 68
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “wskaźnik”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][2] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 681
Further reading[edit]
- wskaźnik in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wskaźnik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “wskaźnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[3]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “wskaźnik”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4] (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 738
- wskaźnik in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
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- pl:Body parts
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