"spinson" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spin",
        "3": "person",
        "gloss1": "property of a subatomic particle"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "^([sic])",
      "name": "sic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person. Based on the idea that a person's opinion can be likened to the up or down spin of a quark. Coined by\nPiotr Nyczka and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron in 2013.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinsons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinson (plural spinsons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tomasz Weron, Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska, Rafał Weron, “The role of educational trainings in the diffusion of smart metering platforms: An agent-based modeling approach”, in Physica A, volume 505, →DOI, page 594",
          "text": "The evolution of a spinson’s opinion is governed by two different processes: (i) independence and (ii) social and mass-media influence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Pawel Sobkowicz, “Opinion Dynamics Model Based on Cognitive Biases of Complex Agents”, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, volume 21, →DOI",
          "text": "The model proposed in this work belongs to the ‘rich feature agent’ or ‘complex agent’ categories, in contrast to the simplified ‘spinson’ models.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Jamil Civitarese, “External fields, independence, and disorder in q-voter models”, in Physical Review E, volume 103, number 1, →DOI",
          "text": "The initial version of the q-voter has N spinsons connected on a complete graph. Among this initial population of spinsons, a q-sized committee is picked at random to influence another randomly selected spinson called a voter. If the committee is homogeneous, then the voter assumes the same value as the spinsons from the lobby; otherwise, it changes its opinion with probability #x5C;epsilon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, \"for\" or \"against\")."
      ],
      "id": "en-spinson-en-noun-FHlFXRF~",
      "links": [
        [
          "sociophysics",
          "sociophysics"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sociophysics) An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, \"for\" or \"against\")."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinson"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spin",
        "3": "person",
        "gloss1": "property of a subatomic particle"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person",
      "name": "blend"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "^([sic])",
      "name": "sic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person. Based on the idea that a person's opinion can be likened to the up or down spin of a quark. Coined by\nPiotr Nyczka and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron in 2013.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spinsons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spinson (plural spinsons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tomasz Weron, Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska, Rafał Weron, “The role of educational trainings in the diffusion of smart metering platforms: An agent-based modeling approach”, in Physica A, volume 505, →DOI, page 594",
          "text": "The evolution of a spinson’s opinion is governed by two different processes: (i) independence and (ii) social and mass-media influence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Pawel Sobkowicz, “Opinion Dynamics Model Based on Cognitive Biases of Complex Agents”, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, volume 21, →DOI",
          "text": "The model proposed in this work belongs to the ‘rich feature agent’ or ‘complex agent’ categories, in contrast to the simplified ‘spinson’ models.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Jamil Civitarese, “External fields, independence, and disorder in q-voter models”, in Physical Review E, volume 103, number 1, →DOI",
          "text": "The initial version of the q-voter has N spinsons connected on a complete graph. Among this initial population of spinsons, a q-sized committee is picked at random to influence another randomly selected spinson called a voter. If the committee is homogeneous, then the voter assumes the same value as the spinsons from the lobby; otherwise, it changes its opinion with probability #x5C;epsilon.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, \"for\" or \"against\")."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sociophysics",
          "sociophysics"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person"
        ],
        [
          "opinion",
          "opinion"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sociophysics) An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, \"for\" or \"against\")."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spinson"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: sociophysics",
  "path": [
    "spinson"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spinson",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: sociophysics",
  "path": [
    "spinson"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "spinson",
  "trace": ""
}