antidictionary
Syllables: an·ti·dic·tion·a·ry/æntɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)nəɹi//æntiˈdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/
antidictionary noun: the set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
Noun
antidictionary (plural antidictionaries)
- The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
- An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]2010, David Salomon, Giovanni Motta, Handbook of Data Compression, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 430
Forms of antidictionary
| plural | antidictionaries |
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Origin of antidictionary
From anti- (“opposite of, reverse”, prefix) + dictionary.
Words that rhyme with antidictionary
Questions about antidictionary
- What does antidictionary mean?
- Antidictionary means the set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
- What part of speech is antidictionary?
- Antidictionary is a noun.
- How do you pronounce antidictionary?
- Antidictionary is pronounced /æntɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)nəɹi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of antidictionary?
- The plural of antidictionary is antidictionaries.
Words near antidictionary in the dictionary
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