Antidictionary
//æntɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)nəɹi// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
"An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]"
Example
More examples"An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]"
Etymology
From anti- (“opposite of, reverse”, prefix) + dictionary.
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