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word cloud

word cloud noun: a graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, with the size of each term often reflecting factors such as its frequency of use in a set of documents or survey responses; such displays are sometimes treated as linguistic data visualizations, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, and sometimes merely decorative.

word cloud: a graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, with the size of each...
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Noun

word cloud (plural word clouds)

  1. A graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, with the size of each term often reflecting factors such as its frequency of use in a set of documents or survey responses; such displays are sometimes treated as linguistic data visualizations, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, and sometimes merely decorative.
    • Suppose you train two neural networks on English and French. Each gleans the structure of its respective language, developing an internal representation known as a latent space. Essentially, it is a word cloud: a map of all the associations that words have in that language, built by placing similar...2024 March 19, George Musser, “A Truly Intelligent Machine. [Online title and tagline: "Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works. Designing machines to think like humans...

Forms of word cloud

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Questions about word cloud

What does word cloud mean?
Word cloud means a graphic shape composed of words, typically in a variety of sizes and fonts, with the size of each term often reflecting factors such as its frequency of use in a set of documents or survey responses; such displays are sometimes treated as linguistic data visualizations, sometimes used as part of a quiz or game, and sometimes merely decorative.
What part of speech is word cloud?
Word cloud is a noun.
What is the plural of word cloud?
The plural of word cloud is word clouds.

Words near word cloud in the dictionary

  1. word chain
  2. word chains
  3. word class
  4. word classes
  5. word clock
  6. word cloud
  7. word clouds
  8. word count
  9. word counts
  10. word divider
  11. word dividers

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