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content

n. in psychology and psychotherapy, the actual thoughts, images, and emotions that occur in conscious experience. Thus, content may be contrasted with the mental processes or the neural structures that underlie them.

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estimator

estimator

n. a quantity calculated from the values in a sample according to some rule and used to give an approximation of the value in a population. For example, the sample mean or average is an estimator for the population mean; the value of the sample mean is the estimate.