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pansexualism

n. the view that all human behavior is motivated by the sexual drive. Sigmund Freud has been popularly associated with such a view; although he emphasized the power of the sexual instinct, Freud also recognized nonsexual interests, such as the self-preservative drives (e.g., hunger, thirst) and the aggressive drive associated with the death instinct. —pansexual adj.

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x-intercept

x -intercept

n. in an equation representing a straight-line relationship between two variables, the value of variable x when the value of variable y equals zero. For example, in the general linear equation format x = a + by, a represents the x-intercept.