"frecency" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfɹiːsənsi/ Forms: frecencies [plural]
Etymology: Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|frequency|recency}} Blend of frequency + recency Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} frecency (countable and uncountable, plural frecencies)
  1. (computing, rare) Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser. Wikipedia link: Firefox Tags: countable, rare, uncountable Categories (topical): Computing

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