devise

(verb)

To use one's intellect to plan or design something.

Related Terms

  • Technological Change
  • incremental model
  • incremental

Examples of devise in the following topics:

  • Institutions

    • "Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.
    • "Institutions include any form of constraint that human beings devise to shape human interaction.
    • The can be either, and I am interested both in formal constraints – such as rules that humans beings devise – and informal constraints – such as conventions and codes of behavior" (North, p 4).
    • These institutions become short cuts to analyzing and devising new solutions for every new problem.
  • Some Exercises

    • The following problems ask you to devise a synthesis for a given target molecule.
  • The Right to Vote

    • His system was opposed by the Marquis de Condorcet, who proposed instead the method of pairwise comparison that he had devised.
    • The Single transferable vote system was devised by Carl Andrae in Denmark in 1855, and also in England by Thomas Hare in 1857.
  • Hydrogen Spectra

    • In some cases, it had been possible to devise formulas that described the emission spectra.
    • Balmer first devised the formula for his series alone, and it was later found to describe all the other series by using different values of $n_f$.
  • State Constitutions

    • Patriots, as they gained control of formerly Loyalist territories, devised constitutions to determine governance in these new states.
  • Building a closed-loop eco-industrial park

    • A network flow strategy is then devised to examine synergistic links between existing or interested companies (see FIGURE 23-1).
  • Team Roles

    • The consultant Meredith Belbin studied high-performing teams and devised a typology based on how members contributed to the group's success.
  • Organic Reactions Overview

    • This sometimes requires experimentation with tests of reaction kinetics, but mechanisms can typically be devised on paper.
  • Length

    • All lengths are measured in terms related to the meter, where its multiples are devised around the convenience of the number 10.
  • Behavioral Economics: Irrational Actions

    • This graph shows the three stages of rational decision making that was devised by Herbert Simon, a notable economist and scientist.
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