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subcorpus

subcorpus noun: a subset of a corpus.

Noun

subcorpus (plural subcorpora)

  1. A subset of a corpus.
    • Thus the word react occurs 2331 times in the Chemistry subcorpus, reacts occurs 2195 times, etc., and adding all members together, the REACT family occurs 27,991 times throughout Chemistry.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary...

Forms of subcorpus

pluralsubcorpora

Origin of subcorpus

From sub- + corpus.

Questions about subcorpus

What does subcorpus mean?
Subcorpus means a subset of a corpus.
What part of speech is subcorpus?
Subcorpus is a noun.
What is the plural of subcorpus?
The plural of subcorpus is subcorpora.

Words near subcorpus in the dictionary

  1. subcoronoid
  2. subcorpora
  3. subcorporate
  4. subcorporation
  5. subcorporations
  6. subcorpus
  7. subcortex
  8. subcortexes
  9. subcortical
  10. subcortically
  11. subcortices

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