Zipfian

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English

Etymology

Zipf +‎ -ian

Adjective

Zipfian (comparative more Zipfian, superlative most Zipfian)

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

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