Subcorpus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subset of a corpus.

    "Thus the word react occurs 2331 times in the Chemistry subcorpus, reacts occurs 2195 times, etc., and adding all members together, the REACT family occurs 27,991 times throughout Chemistry."

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"Thus the word react occurs 2331 times in the Chemistry subcorpus, reacts occurs 2195 times, etc., and adding all members together, the REACT family occurs 27,991 times throughout Chemistry."

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