"Zipfian distribution" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Joe Celko, Joe Celko's Analytics and OLAP in SQL, Elsevier, page 108",
          "text": "A Zipfian distribution occurs when some values appear much more often than others. When you diagram it on a graph with logarithm scales on both axes, you get a straight line (see Figure 12.1).",
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        "A discrete probability distribution whose rank-frequency distribution is an inverse power law relation."
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        "(mathematical statistics) A discrete probability distribution whose rank-frequency distribution is an inverse power law relation."
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