"TF-IDF" meaning in English

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Noun

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 Synonyms: tf-idf, TF*IDF, TF.IDF, TFIDF
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