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Jaccard index

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A statistic for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets, based on the size of the intersection between the sets divided by the size of the union of the sets.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics

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Synonyms: Jaccard coefficient

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Developed by Swiss botanist Paul Jaccard (1868–1944), who gave it the French name coefficient de communauté.