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Definitions of hapax in various dictionaries:
noun - a word that occurs only once
HAPAX - In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon ( also or ; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax) is a word that occurs only once within a co...
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___ legomenon (word that appears only once in a manuscript) |
___ legomenon (word or phrase used only once in a document or corpus) |
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Mar 22 2008 New York Times |
Sep 12 1999 New York Times |
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Abbreviation of hapax legomenon. |
A term of which only one instance of use is recorded. |
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In corpus linguistics, a Hapax legomenon ( also or ; pl. hapax legomena; sometimes abbreviated to hapax) is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text. The term is sometimes incorrectly used to describe a word that occurs in just one of an author's works, but more than once in that particular work. Hapax legomenon is a transliteration of Greek , meaning "(something) being said (only) once".The related terms dis legomenon, tris legomenon, and tetrakis legomenon respectively (, , ) refer to double, triple, or quadruple occurrences, but are far less commonly used. * Hapax legomena are quite common, as predicted by Zipf's law, which states that the frequency of any word in a corpus is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. For large corpora, about 40% to 60% of the words are hapax legomena, and another 10% to 15% are dis legomena. Thus, in the Brown Corpus of American |