noun
a self-report personality inventory based on Hans Eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism)
• Syn: ↑Eysenck Personality Inventory
• Hypernyms: ↑self-report personality inventory, ↑self-report inventory
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\(ˈ)ā|pē\ noun (-s)Etymology: French, literally, ear of grain, from Old French espi, from Latin spica, spicum point, head, tuft — more at spike
: a covering for the apex of a sharp-pointed roof usually in a finial
Useful english dictionary. 2012.