English Explanatory Dictionary

i+1

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Containing only a single word unknown to the listener or reader.
noun
  1. The existence of only one word unknown to the reader or listener of a sentence.

Word forms

i+1

Etymology

Ostensibly coined by Stephen Krashen in his Explorations in Language Acquisition and Use in 2003; but possibly earlier. Originally, referred to a subsequent word (the 1) added to an existing vocabulary of i words, i.e. the i+1th word learned by the learner.

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