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stylometer

stylometer noun: an instrument for measuring columns.

Noun (1)

stylometer (plural stylometers)

  1. An instrument for measuring columns.
    • A bichromator mounted onto the base of an ST-1 stylometer was used.1967, K. V. Aleksandrovich, I. A. Berezin & V. M. Kul'gavchuk, “Photoelectric spectral study of the first stage of electrical rupture of copper wires”, in Brief Communications, volume 7

Noun (2)

stylometer (plural stylometers)

  1. The statistical analysis of literary style through the examination of linguistic patterns, primarily used to determine authorship of anonymous or disputed texts.
    • Accordingly, this paper compares five different methods of textual feature finding that do not need background knowledge external to the texts being analysed (three proposed by previous stylometers, two devised for this study).1996, RS Forsyth , DI Holmes, “Feature-finding for text classification”, in Literary and Linguistic Computing, volume 11, number 4

Forms of stylometer

pluralstylometers

Origin of stylometer

From Ancient Greek στῦλος (stûlos, “column”) + -meter.

From stylo- + -meter.

Questions about stylometer

What does stylometer mean?
Stylometer means an instrument for measuring columns.
What part of speech is stylometer?
Stylometer is a noun.
What is the plural of stylometer?
The plural of stylometer is stylometers.

Words near stylometer in the dictionary

  1. stylomandibular
  2. stylomastoid
  3. stylomastoid foramen
  4. stylomastoid foramina
  5. stylomaxillary
  6. stylometer
  7. stylometers
  8. stylometric
  9. stylometrically
  10. stylometrician
  11. stylometricians

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