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impotent (medicine) and OCR (sh)


impotent (medicine)


impotent


1. Not potent; wanting power, strength. Or vigor. Whether physical, intellectual, or moral; deficient in capacity; destitute of force; weak; feeble; infirm. "There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent inhis feet." (Acts xiv. 8) "O most lame and impotent conclusion!" (Shak) "Not slow to hear, Nor impotent to save." (Addison)

2. Wanting the power of self-restraint; incontrolled; ungovernable; violent. "Impotent of tongue, her silence broke." (Dryden)

3. <medicine> Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.

Origin: F. Impotent, L. Impotens, -entis; pref. Im- not + potens potent, powerful. See Potent.

Source: Websters Dictionary


OCR (sh)




in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data.

It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. OCR Software attempts to identify characters by comparing shapes to those stored in the Software library. The Software tries to identify words using character proximity and will try to reconstruct the original page layout. High accuracy can be obtained by using sharp, clear scans of high-quality originals, but it decreases as the quality of the original declines.