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hum

 [hum]
a low, steady, prolonged sound.
venous hum a continuous blowing, singing, or humming murmur heard on auscultation over the right jugular vein in the sitting or erect position; it is an innocent sign that is obliterated on assumption of the recumbent position or on exerting pressure over the vein.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

hum

(hŭm),
A low continuous murmur.
[echoic]
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hum

(hŭm)
A low continuous murmur.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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'Imagine having to flee all you know and love just to have a chance to hear nothing humming in your head for hours on end.'
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The Aberdeen University lecturer gathered hums from locals near his home in Torry and has assembled them as part of a project described as "Aberdeen Humming." The resulting composition will form a public sound installation which visitors can hear at the Belmont Street venue.
where round(*) is a round-up operator, Nis the number of input nodes of the MLP, His the size of humming data, and input_data(i) is the value for the ith input node of the MLP.
"The humming was designed to be a relatively novel behavior, which might be likely to pique the dogs' curiosity," explained study researcher and psychologist Deborah Custance.
The ale derives its name from the ancient term "Humming" used centuries ago to describe ales and beers.
the edge and learn the humming. Humming depends on forgetting the words.
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