Term: gradation: the act of arranging in grades
Candidate hypernym: quantification: the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something → 1
Candidate hypernym: schorl: black tourmaline → 0
Candidate hypernym: free agent: someone acting freely or even irresponsibly → 0
Candidate hypernym: elephant: the symbol of the Republican Party; introduced in cartoons by Thomas Nast in 1874 → 0
Candidate hypernym: chemotaxis: movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus → 0
Candidate hypernym: foreground: the part of a scene that is near the viewer → 0
Candidate hypernym: descender: a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters → 0
Candidate hypernym: hallucinogen: a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences → 0
Candidate hypernym: bayes' postulate: (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) → 0
Candidate hypernym: adjusting entry: an accounting entry made at the end of an accounting period to allocate items between accounting periods → 0
Candidate hypernym: implement: instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end → 0