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Encyclopedia > Commitment
Look up commitment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Commitment means to duty or pledge to some thing or someone, and can refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...

  • Personal commitment, interaction dominated by obligations. These obligations may be mutual, or self-imposed, or explicitly stated, or may not. Distinction is often made between commitment as a member of an organisation (such as a sporting team, a religion, or as an employee).
  • Brand commitment refers to the strength of the relationship between consumers (or customers) and a particular brand (or service).
  • Involuntary commitment, the practice of using legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward against the will or over the protests of that person.
  • Ontological commitment, belief in an ontology in philosophy
  • Commitment (Computer Science) - the concept of commitment is studied in several branches of Computer Science around the notion of something pledged.
  • Physical commitment is information pledged about physical systems (that are situated at a particular place and time).
  • Social commitment, in a multi-agent system a directed obligation from one agent to another about to being about a certain state of affairs or to perform certain actions
  • Organizational commitment can mean something pledged by an organization as opposed to its members
  • Commitment scheme, in cryptography
  • Commit (data management), to make changes permanent in data management. For example, COMMIT is a statement in SQL. The opposite is to rollback (data management).

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Often we are unaware that a jumble of commitments that developed ad-hoc is at the root of these “default” roles.
Commitment is the triumph of possibility over all the reasons why “it can't be done,” of creation over mere change.
Commitment and the power of your word set new worlds into motion.
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