(obsolete) Ignorance

(historical) Renaissance humanism, developed in late 15th-century Europe in response to the recent discovery of classical texts.

Resembling the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearean play King Lear.

(idiomatic) Before one can perform a complicated task, one has to learn how to perform more simple tasks. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see learn, walk, before, run.

(law, Australia, Britain, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada) A barrister on the opposing side of a dispute; a member of opposing counsel.

(education) A teaching philosophy stating that students must achieve a level of mastery in each topic (e.g. 90% in a test) before moving on to further topics.

(linguistics) A word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a later one, but partly reshaped based on later sound changes or by analogy with inherited words in the language. These words occur, for example, in the Romance and the Indo-Aryan languages.

Obsolete spelling of learning

Synonym of Xuanxue

(computing theory) A model-free reinforcement learning algorithm to learn a policy telling an agent what action to take under what circumstances.