aggressive – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of aggressive

Adjective: aggressive

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore aggressive
Superlativemost aggressive

Sample Sentences

  • an aggressive policy, war, person, nation
  • When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank). [2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63:]
  • This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts. [2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:]
  • This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler. [1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59:]
  • Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step. [2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173:]
  • However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation. [2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465:]
  • The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance. [2002, Shpeisman, T. ; Lueh, G.-Y. ; Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., PACT 2002: 2002 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques : proceedings : 22-25 September, 2002, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press →ISBN, page 249]
  • This sensibly eases the programmer task and allows for more aggressive optimisations of the global program structure. [2003, Susanna Pelagatti, edited by Fethi Rabhi and Sergei Gorlatch, Patterns and Skeletons for Parallel and Distributed Computing, Springer, →ISBN, page 182:]
  • The CUDA C code for the GPU, as well as the C and inline assembly code for the CPU, were highly optimized and aggressive compiler optimizations (-O4) were turned on. [2011, Wen-mei W. Hwu, GPU Computing Gems Jade Edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 11:]
  • an aggressive stock; an aggressive portfolio
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:aggressive.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
3. Proto-Italic *ad
4. Proto-Italic *ad-
5. Latin ad-
6. Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
7. Latin gradior
8. Latin aggredior
9. Latin aggressuslbor.
10. English aggress
11. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
12. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
13. Latin -īvus
14. Old French -ifbor.
15. Middle English -yf
16. English -ive
17. English aggressive
18. From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif. See: French Adjectives 'agressif'.

Verbs referencing "aggressive"

Finnish Adjectives aggressiivinen.