Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.
- n. Mathematics & Physics The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified interval, as:
- n. Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.
- n. Mathematics & Physics The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.
- n. Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.
- n. Statistics The number of measurements in an interval of a frequency distribution.
- n. Statistics The ratio of the number of times an event occurs in a series of trials of a chance experiment to the number of trials of the experiment performed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A crowd; a throng.
- n. The quality of being frequent; often occurrence; the happening often in the ordinary course of things.
- n. The ratio of the number of times that an event occurs in the ordinary course of events to the number of occasions on which it might occur; with a few recent writers on physics, the number of regularly recurring events of any given kind in a given time.
- n. In electricity, see alternating.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
- n. uncountable The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
- n. countable The quotient of the number of times a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time in which it occurs: .
- n. statistics number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence
- n. obsolete A crowd; a throng.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the number of occurrences within a given time period
- n. the number of observations in a given statistical category
- n. the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations
Etymologies
- From Latin frequentia, from frequens. (Wiktionary)
- Latin frequentia, multitude, from frequēns, frequent-, crowded, numerous, frequent. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As we will discuss in Part IV of this book, the word “Spirit” is used generically here and can be likened to the word frequency in physics—it conceptually refers to a wide spectrum of possible spiritual frequencies of energy that potentially can have an effect in the world.”
“An even better approach the one used by search engines is to take the term frequency and multiply it by something that captures the rarity of a word.”
“What i have done in my master thesis was the term frequency of categories words for a thread in a mailing list.”
“Light of a certain frequency is absorbed and this gives a colour to the crystal or solution.”
“That fit with nothing we know about sound on Earth, where the frequency is always related to the size and structure of the vibrating substance, of course.”
“Not even the down-conversion sounds like a serious problem, though the frequency is a bit up there … oakling Says:”
“This frequency is also used by many other wireless devices, and allocating more spectrum to Wi-Fi devices would be one way to avoid interference as the popularity of other 2. 4-GHz wireless devices grows, the senators said.”
“Plus, in addition to the game data, the tracker also used open APIs, such as Amazon S3 for storage and a term frequency API for Facebook.”
“Is there literature about a cause/effect relationship between criminalizing obscenity and deterrence/reduction in frequency?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘frequency’.
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SCIE - natural language processing
parsing, tagging, computational lin..., computer science, language processing, machine learning, natural language ..., semantic level, word sense ambiguity, discourse level, anaphora, ambiguity and 332 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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lasers
words associated with LASERS.
( open list, randomness )
NOTE: i'd like to keep the list specific to the LASER itself (Any LASER), and leave out applied sciences..
sp...electromagnetism, light, wavelength, phase, frequency, polarization, emission, optical, spectroscopy, lase, crystal, projection and 61 more...
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shock
words associated with electric shock.
high voltage, spark, Tesla, tesla coil, arcing, current, macroshock, resistance, Ohm's law, conductive, current flow, muscular spasms and 18 more...
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moreover and apropos of nothing
l'aspirateur
esprit
coquillage
treble
loquacious
verbose
aristocracy
aristo
aristocrat
aristocratic
antwerp
implore
exudein situ, frequency, fluent, counterpoint, no admittance, trespass, canvas, caravan, rapture, tendril, sonicity, succor and 25 more...
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Movies I've Seen
There's a jar I've been adding movie ticket stubs to since about age twelve. I am pleased to have a more accessible way of keeping track of the movies I've seen. Even if some are pretty embarrassin...
ghostbusters, amadeus, miller's crossing, no reservations, hoot, insomnia, master and commander, the matrix, o brother, where ..., night of the comet, the dark knight, tropic thunder and 489 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, F
felony, frolic, fend, fuselage, farthingale, freewheeling, frigorific, flummery, fancypants, felsitic, flagstone, flageolet and 295 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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breeze debris
autodidact, hollographic, neurotheology, pensive, grapple, nondual, integral, phantasmagoria, burnished, capacious, ginger, astral and 120 more...
Tweets
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