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self-paced

self-paced adjective: designed to be completed at the doer’s own rate of progress and schedule.

Adjective

self-paced (comparative more self-paced, superlative most self-paced)

  1. Designed to be completed at the doer’s own rate of progress and schedule.
    • It has been found experimentally, that persons of average vision are able to perform self-paced visual tasks requiring the perception of detail subtending an angle at the eye of one-sixth of a degree (10 minutes of arc) very efficiently under ordinary conditions of lighting, and provided the detail...1962, Hubert Claude Weston, Sight, Light and Work, page 76

Forms of self-paced

comparativemore self-paced
superlativemost self-paced

Origin of self-paced

From self- + paced.

Questions about self-paced

What does self-paced mean?
Self-paced means designed to be completed at the doer’s own rate of progress and schedule.
What part of speech is self-paced?
Self-paced is an adjective.

Words near self-paced in the dictionary

  1. self-organizing map
  2. self-organizing maps
  3. self-originated
  4. self-own
  5. self-owns
  6. self-paced
  7. self-palpation
  8. self-parasitic
  9. self-parasitism
  10. self-pardon
  11. self-pardoned

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