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cursive

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++cur·sive /ˈkɜːsɪv $ ˈkɜːr-/ adjective  WRITEwritten in a style of writing with the letters joined together 草书的,草写的,连笔的 cursive script 草体cursively adverb
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cursiveRecognition of cursive handwriting is especially prone to errors due to the difficulty of determining the correct segmentation of a word.Likewise, in cursive handwriting it is often difficult to determine where one letter stops and another starts.Further details of printed character recognition systems are not included here in order to concentrate on cursive handwriting systems.Furthermore, with cursive handwriting, words are difficult to segment into the constituent letters.Handwritten text, either cursive or hand-printed, is much more difficult to recognise than printed text.The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke.Wright's system for cursive script recognition has efficient low-level processing but relies on a dictionary and higher level linguistic processing.Elastic curve matching has also been applied to cursive script recognition.
Origin cursive (1700-1800) Medieval Latin cursivus running, cursive, from Latin currere; → CURRENT1
cur·sive adjectiveChineseSyllable
Corpus written with style writing letters a the of in


cursive
cursive /ˈkɜːsɪv $ ˈkɜːr-/ adjective
 Date: 1700-1800
 Language: Medieval Latin
 Origin: cursivus __running, cursive__, from Latin currere; current1
written in a style of writing with the letters joined together:
    cursive script
—cursively adverb


cur·siveBrE /ˈkɜːsɪv/ 🔊NAmE /ˈkɜːrsɪv/ 🔊 adjective (specialist) (of handwriting 笔迹) with the letters joined together 连笔的;草书的;草写体的