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malus

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for malus.

Editorial note

I also checked out the Malus website, and at least one of the claims is a bit questionable.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of malus gathered in one view.

noun

A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

noun

(rare) A penalty or negative thing.

noun

(business) The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for malus.

noun

A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

noun

(rare) A penalty or negative thing.

noun

(business) The loss or return of performance-related compensation originally paid by an employer to an employee as a result of the discovery of a defect in the performance.

Example sentences

1

I also checked out the Malus website, and at least one of the claims is a bit questionable.

2

A Tesla looks like a Japanese Car to me as a German (which is a malus).

3

Everything else since then is a bonus (or sometimes a malus, but on average a bonus).

4

Would be interesting to run this through Malus [1] or literally just Claude Code and get open source Claude Code out of it.

5

There is a malus for endorsing bad comments, shouldn't there be a built-in bonus for well-behaving endorsers, to compensate and make the system self-sufficient?

6

Oh god, I was so close to believing Malus was a real product and not satire.

7

I'm also interested in what models tools like Malus use, especially since many are trained on open-source projects to begin with.

8

A service like Malus doesn't really solve license compliance overhead.

9

AI tools that reproduce open-source code may trigger those licenses, and I don't see any mention of Malus assessing the output against open-source projects.

10

Because managers get a malus for allowing too much non-accountable hours for their managees.

11

At the Einstein's time they didn't have single-photon counters to confirm/deny, and today it seems that single-photon Malus looks like the classic one (though i didn't find articles directly confirming it, only other articles mentioning it as confirmed).

12

You would be surprised to know that, considering all bonus and malus, even with a very low pay compared to what I would get in US the quality of my life is far better here in EU that there.

Quote examples

1

Interesting that Einstein's proposal with modified Malus's law for single photons produces a "local realism" explanation for the observed apparent Bell's violation in photon polarization experiments.

2

Malus is also Latin for "apple tree", coincidentally.

3

Malus is a homophone of "malice." But then again "Claude" is a homophone of "clod."

Proper noun examples

1

The burden would shift from reviewing and auditing the component to reviewing and auditing Malus.

2

Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fall in the same legal area as code that would be generated by something like Malus.

3

[1] Malus.sh; Initially a joke but, in the end, not.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use malus in a sentence?

I also checked out the Malus website, and at least one of the claims is a bit questionable.

What does malus mean?

A plant of the genus Malus (the apples).

What part of speech is malus?

malus is commonly used as noun.