slight

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This caused a slight DC bias within each sub band filter.

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Quick take

a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

verb

pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

adjective

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with `a') at least some; "little rain fell in May"; "gave it little thought"; "little time is left"; "we still have little money"; "a little hope remained"; "there's slight chance that it will work"; "there's a slight chance it will work"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slight.

noun

a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

verb

pay no attention to, disrespect; "She cold-shouldered her ex-fiance"

adjective

lacking substance or significance; "slight evidence"; "a tenuous argument"; "a thin plot"; a fragile claim to fame"

See also: flimsy, fragile, tenuous, thin

adjective

being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

Example sentences

This caused a slight DC bias within each sub band filter.

The rise has stalled and the trend has been reversing with a slight decline of 1% in 2012 [1].

A slight ridge is not going to clearly communicate push vs. pull.

My father recently died and while things like these may trigger some slight pain, that's just life.

It's changed slightly now, but when I raced there was C1 - C5 for cyclists, T1 - T3 for tricyclists and H1 - H4 for hand cyclists.

Have you considered adding a slight cost for submitting articles?

There's something in low-level C that makes your brain tick a slightly different way and how you build your creations in C rather than in other languages reflects that.

I made a few slight documentation updates on Requests as part of my first pull request ever, and he made me feel like my contribution was so important.

I think if you talk to cryptographers, you'll get a slight bias towards the belief that it's the latter: that there are implementation weaknesses at play here more than fundamental breaks in crypto.

If there is an early falling out, though, you can have founders who leave the company and subsequently assert expensive legal claims even though their contributions to the venture may have been slight.

Perhaps a slight exaggeration but not far off, especially since their design is so tightly coupled and dependent upon overall engine parameters.

I'm going to go out on a limb and register a slight discomfort with the increasing use of HN as a "court of public opinion" in very fact-bound disputes like this one. I can sort of see resorting to it out of desperation, but I'm afraid the Internet Lynch Mob has a very high ratio of outrage to effort spent actually investigating.

I don't want to go too far, but according to Wikipedia's article on rape "the World Health Organization defined it in 2002 as 'physically forced or otherwise coerced penetration even if slight of the vulva or anus, using a penis, other body parts or an object'".Is it a mistake to use that definition here?

"Or maybe they don't care enough about a tiny fraction of their market to create assets at dramatically higher resolution just to prevent customers from feeling a slight amount of buyer's remorse when they look at their display with a magnifying glass?Maybe they'd rather have pages load faster for all their customers, instead of serving up needlessly huge image assets to every user?