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long tails

long tails is the plural of long tail.

Meaning of long tail

Noun

long tail (plural long tails)

  1. (capitalized, sometimes) Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
    • What’s really amazing about the Long Tail is the sheer size of it. Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you’ve got a market bigger than the hits.2004 October, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”, in Wired, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2016
  2. The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values.

Questions about long tails

What is long tails the plural of?
Long tails is the plural of long tail.

Words near long tails in the dictionary

  1. Long Sutton
  2. long sweetening
  3. long sword
  4. long swords
  5. long tail
  6. long tails
  7. long take
  8. long term
  9. long term evolution
  10. long termly
  11. long thousand

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