"vocd" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: Abbreviation of vocabulary diversity. ‘vocd’ is the name of a computer program originally published in 2004 by Gerard McKee. The program calculates lexical diversity for use in psycholinguistic analysis, and the tool’s name is used somewhat interchangeably to describe the measure it provides. Etymology templates: {{abbrev|en|vocabulary diversity}} Abbreviation of vocabulary diversity Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} vocd (uncountable)
  1. (corpus linguistics) A measure of the lexical diversity of a given corpus, determined by comparing the sizes of steadily larger random samples from the corpus against their respective type-token ratios. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: VOCD, VocD, vocD
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