Kwic

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of keyword in context: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Coined by IBM research engineer Hans Peter Luhn.

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