Zipfian

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Of or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.
Of or pertaining to Zipf's law or its Zipfian distribution.

/ˈzɪpfiːən/ /ˈzɪf-/

Zipfian more Zipfian most Zipfian

From Zipf + -ian.

Zipf's law

Zipfian distribution

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