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burstiness

burstiness noun: the degree to which something occurs in abrupt bursts.

Noun

burstiness (countable and uncountable, plural burstinesses)

  1. The degree to which something occurs in abrupt bursts
    • In each case, the process presents complex dynamic patterns including temporal correlations, burstiness, and all other types of nonstationarity.2015 July 11, “Local Variation of Hashtag Spike Trains and Popularity in Twitter”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of burstiness

pluralburstinesses

Origin of burstiness

From bursty + -ness.

Questions about burstiness

What does burstiness mean?
Burstiness means the degree to which something occurs in abrupt bursts.
What part of speech is burstiness?
Burstiness is a noun.
What is the plural of burstiness?
The plural of burstiness is burstinesses.

Words near burstiness in the dictionary

  1. bursteth
  2. burstier
  3. burstiest
  4. burstily
  5. burstin'
  6. burstiness
  7. burstinesses
  8. bursting
  9. bursting a blood vessel
  10. bursting at the seams
  11. bursting forth

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