Look up: Goal

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   Goal
   This is an identifiable point from which measurements can be made. If possible the target should be clearly visible from the air.
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   goal
   [n] - the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it 2. [n] - game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points 3. [n] - a successful attempt at scoring
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   Goal
   Any time the ball crosses, at any height, the line between the goal posts, it is considered a goal regardless of who knocks it through, including the pony.
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   Goal
   What you hope to achieve from your PR campaign; the desired affect; the measurable outcome.
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   goal
   (programming) In logic programming, a predicate applied to its arguments which the system attempts to prove by matching it against the clauses of the program. A goal may fail or it may succeed in one or more ways. (1997-07-14)
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   goal
   in problem solving: a description of a desired solution; in theorem proving: an assertion representing the theorem to be proved; in the general problem solver (GPS):an encoding of the current situation (an object or list of objects),the desired situation and a history of the attempts made so far to change the current situation into the desired one Category: Automation (includes telecommunicatio...
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   Goal
   Goal noun [ French gaule pole, Prov. French waule , of German origin; confer Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus , Icelandic völr a round stick; probably akin to English wale .] 1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey i ...
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   goal
   In psychology, any object or objective that an organism seeks to attain or achieve. ... Origin: M.E. Gol ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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   goal
   noun a successful attempt at scoring; `the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play`
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    goal
    noun game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
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    goal
    noun the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; `the ends justify the means`
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    Goal
    An individual`s or institution`s financial objective.
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    Goal
    A `goal` or `objective` consists of a projected state of affairs which a person or a system plans or intends to achieve or bring about ` a personal or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. Many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines. A desire or an intention becomes a goal if and only if one activates an action for achieving it (see goal-oriented).
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    Goal
    • (n.) The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. • (n.) The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain. • (n.) A base, station, or bound used in vario...
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    goal
    (from the article `Australian rules football`) ...the ground. Two shorter posts, called behind posts, rise to a minimum height of 3 metres (10 feet), with each one placed at the side of a goalpost ... ...(82 m) wide. Goalposts at each end are 21 feet (6.4 m) high and 21 feet apart with a crossbar 8 feet (2.4 m) above the ground. A point...
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    goal
    provides one point; scored when a puck goes between the goalposts from the stick of an attacking player and entirely crosses the red line between the goalposts; also the informal term used to refer to the area made of the goalposts and the net guarded by the goalie and into which a puck must enter to score a point.
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    Goal
    a ball that crosses the goal line between the goalposts and below the crossbar for which a point is awarded; also, the 8-foot high, 24-foot wide structure consisting of two posts, a crossbar and a net into which all goals are scored.
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    goal
    a surface in space marked by a structure of two upright posts 18 feet 6 inches apart extending above a horizontal crossbar whose top edge is 10 feet off the ground. The goal is the surface above the bar and between the lines of the inner edges of the posts, extending infinitely upward, centered above each end line in American, and each goal line in Canadian football.
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