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efferent nerve fiber

a nerve fiber that carries impulses from the central nervous system to the periphery. Compare afferent nerve fiber.

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transfer

transfer

1. vb. to shift or change from one location to another, one form to another, or one situation or condition to another.

2. n. the shift or change thus produced, as in transfer of training.

3. n. in Gestalt psychology, the use of the solution to one problem in solving a second problem that has elements in common with the first.