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Meaning of Zipf's law | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.

Examples

“So Zipf’s Law suggests that you scale all your word frequencies (and document frequencies) with the log() function, the inverse of exp().”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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