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adj
Of or relating to George Kingsley Zipf (1902–1950), American linguist who studied statistical occurrences in different languages and proposed the Zipfian distribution, codified as Zipf's Law, one of a family of discrete power law probability distributions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of or pertaining to Zipf's law or its Zipfian distribution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Zipf + -ian.
Across languages
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