aggressive

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/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/

adjective

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adjective
Ready to fight, attack, or act forcefully.
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adjective
Extra detail
Exploiting every opportunity to be applied.

Examples

Seals have been known to exhibit aggressive behaviour towards swimmers.
The aggressive man urged me to sign the contract.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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adjective

Extra meanings

That spreads quickly or extensively; virulent; malignant.
Characterized by aggression; highly combative; prone to behave in a way that involves attacking (especially if unjustly) or arguing.
Involving high risk for potentially high reward.

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The aggressive salesman urged me to sign the contract right away.
The Itanium processor is an example of an Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture and thus relies on aggressive and expensive compiler optimizations for performance.
an aggressive policy, war, person, nation

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When a new aggressive fish is added to an aquarium with an already-established, territorial fish, the established fish will probably fight to protect its territory (the whole tank).
2011, Judith S. Weis, Do Fish Sleep, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 63
This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024
This paper describes how aggressive loop unrolling is done in a retargetable optimizing compiler.
1996, Tibor Gyimothy, Compiler Construction: 6th International Conference, CC '96, Linköping, Sweden, April 24 - 26, 1996. Proceedings, Volume 6, Springer, →ISBN, page 59
Since the most aggressive type of optimization a program can be subjected to is parallelization, understanding a program before attempting to parallelize it is a very important step.
2001, Paul Feautrier, edited by Santosh Pande and Dharma P. Agrawal, Compiler Optimizations for Scalable Parallel Systems, Springer, →ISBN, page 173
However, aggressive compiler techniques such as loop unrolling, promoting of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in of subscripted array variables into registers (especially in loops) and interprocedural optimizations create heavy register pressure and it is still quite important to do a good job of register allocation.
2002, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar, The Compiler Design Handbook: Optimizations and Machine Code Generation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 465

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Origin

adjective

From aggress + -ive. Compare with French agressif.

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adjective

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adjective

The blank driver kept tailgating and honking, which made others feel unsafe on the road.