Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.
- noun Mathematics & Physics The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified interval, as.
- noun The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.
- noun The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.
- noun The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.
- noun The number of measurements or observations having a certain value or characteristic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A crowd; a throng.
- noun The quality of being frequent; often occurrence; the happening often in the ordinary course of things.
- noun The ratio of the number of times that an event occurs in the ordinary course of events to the number of occasions on which it might occur; with a few recent writers on physics, the number of regularly recurring events of any given kind in a given time.
- noun In electricity, see
alternating .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence
- noun obsolete A crowd; a throng.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
rate ofoccurrence of anything; the relationship betweenincidence and timeperiod . - noun uncountable The
property ofoccurring often rather thaninfrequently . - noun countable The
quotient of the number of times aperiodic phenomenon occurs over thetime in which it occurs: . - noun statistics
number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number of occurrences within a given time period
- noun the number of observations in a given statistical category
- noun the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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We kid about the frequency of Jerome's missives due to .... well, the ** frequency** of his letters. "max stanfield wrote on Apr 23, 2009 11: 09 AM:
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We kid about the frequency of Jerome's missives due to .... well, the ** frequency** of his letters. "max stanfield wrote on Apr 23, 2009 11: 09 AM:
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As we will discuss in Part IV of this book, the word “Spirit” is used generically here and can be likened to the word frequency in physics—it conceptually refers to a wide spectrum of possible spiritual frequencies of energy that potentially can have an effect in the world.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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As we will discuss in Part IV of this book, the word “Spirit” is used generically here and can be likened to the word frequency in physics—it conceptually refers to a wide spectrum of possible spiritual frequencies of energy that potentially can have an effect in the world.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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As we will discuss in Part IV of this book, the word “Spirit” is used generically here and can be likened to the word frequency in physics—it conceptually refers to a wide spectrum of possible spiritual frequencies of energy that potentially can have an effect in the world.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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As we will discuss in Part IV of this book, the word “Spirit” is used generically here and can be likened to the word frequency in physics—it conceptually refers to a wide spectrum of possible spiritual frequencies of energy that potentially can have an effect in the world.
The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011
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What i have done in my master thesis was the term frequency of categories words for a thread in a mailing list.
Emotional Web Intelligence petrushyna 2008
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What i have done in my master thesis was the term frequency of categories words for a thread in a mailing list.
Archive 2008-07-01 petrushyna 2008
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An even better approach the one used by search engines is to take the term frequency and multiply it by something that captures the rarity of a word.
Debate word clouds. Ann Althouse 2008
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Light of a certain frequency is absorbed and this gives a colour to the crystal or solution.
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