What's the difference between procrustean and procrustes?

Procrustean


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Modern etiological theories attempt to reduce the phenomena of Folie à Deux to a procrustean mould, emphasizing in particular the contribution of schizophrenic pathology to the development of the condition.
  • (2) The result has been procrustean interpretation, dissention, and a remarkable stasis in the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious.
  • (3) Patients are indexed according to essential clinical and laboratory data without reference to Procrustean diagnostic labels.
  • (4) His compositions were daring and dynamic, combining radical foreshortenings and vast areas of "empty" space, Procrustean croppings and dangerous blockings of view, and an enormous variety of materials and techniques, greasy inks and essences – oil diluted with turps – powdery pinky pastels, plain old charcoal on bright green commercial paper or robin-egg blue, and all shapes and sizes, some huge some almost miniatures, some extremely elongated, some almost square.
  • (5) Therapy must therefore always be patient-specific and the Procrustean insistence that patients should fit the programme rather than the programme fit the patients should be resisted.
  • (6) First, using ROC, all radiological findings must be unambiguously scored as true-positive, true-negative, false-positive, or false-negative, often forcing arbitrary, procrustean choices on readers and evaluators.

Procrustes


Definition:

  • (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data were input to generalized Procrustes analysis to obtain a perceptual map of the products for each subject and a consensus product map.
  • (2) Finite-element scaling analysis (FESA), generalized procrustes analysis (GPA), and Euclidean distance matrix analysis (EDMA) are applied in a two-dimensional study of craniofacial growth in normal children and those affected with Crouzon syndrome.
  • (3) The second one is a kind of Procrustes rotation in inter-battery factor analysis.
  • (4) Removing TAP closely reproduced the 5-factor model in both principal-components and procrustes analyses.

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