LONG TAIL meaning: Many niche products, few sales

We found 13 dictionaries that define the word long tail:

General (10 matching dictionaries)

long tail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long tail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
long tail: Collins English Dictionary
long-tail: Wordnik
long tail: Wiktionary
long tail: Dictionary.com
Long Tail, Long tail, The Long Tail (book), The Long Tail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Long Tail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
Long tail: World Wide Words
The long tail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

Long Tail, Long-tail, The Long Tail: Encyclopedia
the long tail: Netlingo

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

long tail, long tail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (long tail)

▸ noun: (marketing, sometimes capitalized) Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
▸ noun: (mathematics, probability) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values.

Opposite:

short tail, truncated tail, abbreviated tail

Phrases:

the long tail, a bird with long beautiful tail, black tropical bird with long tail, mammal with a very long tail, more...

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