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stylometers

stylometers is the plural of stylometer.

Meaning of stylometer

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

Questions about stylometers

What is stylometers the plural of?
Stylometers is the plural of stylometer.

Words near stylometers in the dictionary

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

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