variety show

(noun)

A theatrical entertainment featuring a succession of short, unrelated performances by singers, dancers, comedians, acrobats, magicians etc

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Examples of variety show in the following topics:

  • Confidence Intervals

    • These sections show how to compute confidence intervals for a variety of parameters.
  • 3D Plots

    • Just as two-dimensional scatter plots show the data in two dimensions, 3D plots show data in three dimensions.
    • Figure 1 shows a 3D scatter plot of the fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories from a variety of cereal types.
    • A 3D scatter plot showing fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories from a variety of cereal types
    • An alternative 3D scatter plot showing fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories.
  • Cheap Amusements

    • American burlesque is a genre of variety show.
    • The genre traditionally encompassed a variety of acts.
    • The shows had slowly changed from ensemble ribald variety performances, to simple performances focusing mostly on the striptease.
    • Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment popular in the United States and Canada from the 1830s until the early 1930s.
    • At its height, vaudeville played to various economic classes and an in a variety of venues.
  • Contour Plots

    • Consider the Figure 1 that contains data on the fat, non-sugar carbohydrates, and calories present in a variety of breakfast cereals.
    • Each line shows the carbohydrate and fat levels for cereals with the same number of calories.
    • A contour plot showing calories as a function of fat and carbohydrates
    • A contour plot showing calories as a function of fat and carbohydrates with areas shaded.
  • Ceramics in Mesopotamia

    • The invention of the potter's wheel in the fourth millennium BCE led to several stylistic shifts and varieties in form of Mesopotamian ceramics.
    • As the Akkadian Empire overtook the Sumerian city-states, ceramists continued to produce bowls, vases, jars, and other objects in a variety of shapes and sizes.
    • The Third Ur Dynasty, better known as Ur III, witnessed the continuation of unpainted ceramic vessels that took a variety of forms.
    • Pottery produced during the "Old" Babylonian period shows a return to painted abstract designs and increased variety in forms.
    • In this photograph, a bowl, a jar, and a goblet show remnants of paint on their exteriors.
  • Basic Map Types

    • Depending on what trends in your data you want to showcase, you can choose one of a variety of thematic maps.
    • General-purpose maps show the locations of roads, rivers, institutions, and land covers.
    • Dot maps use dots to show comparative densities of features over a base map.
    • They show ratios, proportions, and percentages.
    • Usually they show difference in magnitude by differentiating the width of the lines.
  • Study Tools

    • Boundless courseware includes a variety of study tools so students can engage with the content in the way that suits them best.
    • Boundless courseware not only includes text and multimedia content—it also includes a variety of study tools so students can engage with the content in the way that suits them best.
    • Flashcards have a definition on one side, and when the card is flipped, the other side shows both the key term and the definition.
    • Our flashcards use spaced-repetition technology, which shows the student a given word when they're most likely to forget it.
  • Variety

  • Pancreatic Juice

    • Pancreatic juice is a liquid secreted by the pancreas that contains a variety of enzymes, including trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, elastase, carboxypeptidase, pancreatic lipase, nucleases, and amylase.
    • A variety of factors cause a high pressure within pancreatic ducts.
    • A schematic diagram that shows pancreatic acini and the ducts where fluid is created and released.
  • E-Mail as an Entry Point

    • There are a variety of mechanisms designed to do exactly that.
    • The sender must enable the receiver to unscramble that message, and this can be done in a variety of ways.
    • This image shows the transmission of an email from one device to another.
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