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pseudovalue

pseudovalue noun: something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.

Noun

pseudovalue (plural pseudovalues)

  1. Something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.
    • Each observer's data generates a pseudovalue of perceptual accuracy and the set of pseudovalues are treated as if they are independent and identically distributed.2013, William Thomson, Peter N. T. Wells, The Perception of Visual Information, page 264
    • In traditional databases, missing information is mostly handled by means of a pseudovalue, called a null value […]2015, Janusz Kacprzyk, Witold Pedrycz, Springer Handbook of Computational Intelligence, page 300

Forms of pseudovalue

pluralpseudovalues

Origin of pseudovalue

From pseudo- + value.

Questions about pseudovalue

What does pseudovalue mean?
Pseudovalue means something that resembles a value but is not a true value or does not really belong to the set of data being studied.
What part of speech is pseudovalue?
Pseudovalue is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudovalue?
The plural of pseudovalue is pseudovalues.

Words near pseudovalue in the dictionary

  1. pseudovacuum
  2. pseudovalidate
  3. pseudovalidated
  4. pseudovalidation
  5. pseudovalidations
  6. pseudovalue
  7. pseudovalues
  8. pseudovaria
  9. pseudovariable
  10. pseudovariables
  11. pseudovaries

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