Usually means: Frequency inversely proportional to rank.
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General (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Zipf's law: Wiktionary
  2. Zipf's Law, Zipf's law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Zipf's Law: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Zipf's Law: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Zipf's law: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Zipf's Law: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Zipf's law: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Zipf's law)

noun:  The fact that many types of data studied in the physical and social sciences can be approximated with a Zipfian distribution.


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