Graft or grafting may refer to:
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Graft (politics)
Graft, as understood in American English, is a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdire ...
, a form of political corruption
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Graft, Netherlands
Graft is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Alkmaar, and lies about 11 km south of the city of Alkmaar.
The village was first mentioned in the 12th century as Greft, and means "dug waterway". ...
, a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
Science and technology
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Graft (surgery)
Grafting refers to a surgical procedure to move tissue from one site to another on the body, or from another creature, without bringing its own blood supply with it. Instead, a new blood supply grows in after it is placed. A similar technique ...
, a surgical procedure
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Grafting
Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together. The upper part of the combined plant is called the scion () while the lower part is called the rootstock. The succ ...
, the joining of plant tissues
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Grafting (chemistry)
Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together. The upper part of the combined plant is called the scion () while the lower part is called the rootstock. The succ ...
, chemical modification of surface
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Grafting (decision trees)
Grafting is the process of adding nodes to inferred decision trees to improve the predictive accuracy. A decision tree is a graphical model that is used as a support tool for decision process.
Introduction
Once the decision tree is constructed, th ...
, in computer science, adding nodes to a decision tree
Art and entertainment
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''Graft'' (1915 serial), a film serial
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''Graft'' (1931 film), featuring Boris Karloff
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''Graft'' (Paine), a sculpture by Roxy Paine, National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
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Graft (rapper)
Jovanni Shemar Sterling (born 27 May 1999) known professionally as Graft, is a British people, British rapper and former professional youth association football, footballer, from Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Early life
Graft was born in G ...
, a British rapper
Other uses
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Grafting (knitting)
In knitting, grafting is the joining of two knitted fabrics using yarn and a needle in one of three types of seam (sewing), seams:
# selvage (knitting), selvage-to-selvage (knitting), selvage seam,
# selvage (knitting), selvage-to-end ("wales") s ...
, the joining of two knitted fabrics
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Graft (architects)
Graft (stylised as GRAFT) is a design studio conceived as a ‘label’ for architecture, urban planning, exhibition design, music and the “pursuit of happiness”. Graft was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfr ...
, an architecture firm
See also
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Photografting, a technique used in the study of polymers
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Transplant (disambiguation), including some senses meaning a type of graft
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Cross-link
In chemistry and biology a cross-link is a bond or a short sequence of bonds that links one polymer chain to another. These links may take the form of covalent bonds or ionic bonds and the polymers can be either synthetic polymers or natural ...
, in some literature linking of chemicals to surface is named as grafting
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