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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the stylometer; measured by a stylometer.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or using stylometry

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Examples

  • But modern scholars, practicing an ineffable linguistic science called stylometric analysis, insist that they can discern traces of the Master's voice in the lines.

    Out of the Miasma of Bardolatry, a Masterpiece Sam Sacks 2011

  • The fundamental principle of stylometric analysis is that the frequency of occurrence of function words in a written document is an identifying characteristic of the author.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • But to add weight to his analysis, Cashill tells us that no fewer than five teams of researchers have been doing the stylometric thing, with four already reporting in.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • The fundamental principle of stylometric analysis is that the frequency of occurrence of function words in a written document is an identifying characteristic of the author.

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • (I suspect this paper was really meant to validate that stylometric method rather than to solve the "mystery.")

    Stylometry for Fun and Profit 2008

  • Though people have been using various stylometric techniques for centuries, the field has really taken off with computers.

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • (I suspect this paper was really meant to validate that stylometric method rather than to solve the "mystery.")

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • Though people have been using various stylometric techniques for centuries, the field has really taken off with computers.

    Stylometry for Fun and Profit 2008

  • (Computer counts have aided these stylometric studies, but the isolation of a group of six dialogues by means of their stylistic commonalities was recognized in the nineteenth century.)

    Plato Kraut, Richard 2009

  • NNC, the developer of an authorship ”stylometric” software package has examined, and found wanting, Cashill’s claim that Ayers ghosted Dreams from My Father.

    The Harvard Law legacy of plagiarism (and Kagan and Obama and Tribe and Ogletree and Dershowitz…and Tom Lehrer) 2010

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