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columnwise

columnwise adjective: by columns; one column at a time.

Adjective

columnwise (not comparable)

  1. By columns; one column at a time.
    • We illustrate the method on several real data sets, where it uncovers more structure than found by purely columnwise methods or purely rowwise methods.2016, Peter J. Rousseeuw, Wannes Van den Bossche, “Detecting anomalous data cells”, in arXiv

Forms of columnwise

alternative formcolumn-wise

Origin of columnwise

From column + -wise.

Questions about columnwise

What does columnwise mean?
Columnwise means by columns; one column at a time.
What part of speech is columnwise?
Columnwise is an adjective.

Words near columnwise in the dictionary

  1. columns
  2. Columns of Gediminas
  3. columns of Türck
  4. columnstore
  5. columnstores
  6. columnwise
  7. columnwisely
  8. colums
  9. Colunga
  10. Colungas
  11. colupulone

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