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Absolute Frequency

Definition: Absolute frequency refers to the number of times a particular item or event occurs in a given dataset.

Part of Speech:

Noun

Senses:

Sense 1:

A statistical measure representing the count of occurrence of a specific item or event in a dataset.

Example sentence:

The absolute frequency of the word "dog" in the text corpus was 150.

Sense 2:

In signal processing, the absolute frequency refers to the actual frequency of a sound wave rather than the frequency relative to other waves.

Example sentence:

The absolute frequency of the sound wave was measured using an oscilloscope.

Usages:

Usage 1:

Within the field of data analysis, absolute frequency is utilized to determine the occurrence of categorical or numerical data.

Example sentence:

The researcher calculated the absolute frequencies of different demographic attributes in the survey results.

Usage 2:

In the context of linguistics, absolute frequency is employed to analyze the occurrence of specific words or linguistic features in a language.

Example sentence:

The study found that the absolute frequency of adjectives in poetry is higher than in prose.

Possible Related Products:

• Statistics Textbook
• Signal Processing Book
• Data Analysis Software
• Linguistics Dictionary