"TF-IDF" meaning in All languages combined

See TF-IDF on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: tf-idf [alternative], TF*IDF [alternative], TF.IDF [alternative], TFIDF [alternative]
Etymology: Abbreviation of “term frequency over inverse document frequency”. Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} TF-IDF (uncountable)
  1. (information retrieval) A mathematical approximation to the importance of a particular word in a given piece of text. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-TF-IDF-en-noun-Xq93KFe1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Alternative forms

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