Kwic
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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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