antidictionary
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From anti- (“opposite of, reverse”, prefix) + dictionary.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /æntɪˈdɪkʃ(ə)nəɹi/, /æntɪˈdɪkʃənɹi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /æntiˈdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/, /-taɪ-/, [-ɾi-]
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi
- Hyphenation: an‧ti‧dic‧tion‧a‧ry
Noun
[edit]antidictionary (plural antidictionaries)
- (computational linguistics) The set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string.
- 2010, David Salomon, Giovanni Motta, Handbook of Data Compression, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 430:
- An antidictionary method is based on an inverse kind of knowledge. Such a method maintains an antidictionary with strings that do not appear in the input. Using the antidictionary, the encoder can often predict the next data symbol […]
Translations
[edit]set of all words of minimal length that never appear in a particular string
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