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false drops

false drops is the plural of false drop.

Meaning of false drop

Noun

false drop (plural false drops)

  1. A non-targeted card that falls out from a card data deck, when a rod search is performed.
  2. Targets, hits, that are not relevant in an information retrieval search.
  3. Retrieved, but unwanted, document representations.
  4. noise in an information retrieval search.
    • False drop (a): a false drop is a retrieved item that meets the syntactic requirements of a query but not the semantic requirements of a query […]1992, Carolyn Watters, Dictionary of Information Science and Technology, Boston: Academic Press

Questions about false drops

What is false drops the plural of?
False drops is the plural of false drop.

Words near false drops in the dictionary

  1. false documentaries
  2. false documentary
  3. false door
  4. false doors
  5. false drop
  6. false drops
  7. false easting
  8. false eastings
  9. false economies
  10. false economy
  11. false equivalence

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