Zipf's Law Definition
zĭpfs
noun
A pattern of distribution in certain data sets, notably words in a linguistic corpus, by which the frequency of an item is inversely proportional to its ranking by frequency. In such a distribution, frequency declines sharply as rank number increases: a small number of items occur very frequently and a large number of items occur very rarely.
American Heritage
pronoun
The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.
Wiktionary
Origin of Zipf's Law
After its formulator George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
After George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), American linguist.
From Wiktionary
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