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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A graphical representation that reveals the exponential drop in frequency of communication between engineers as the distance between them increases.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: communication theory
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History
Discovered by Professor Thomas J. Allen in the late 1970s.
Across languages
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