four-russians
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.14 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Method of Four Russians: a technique for speeding up certain matrix operations by partitioning the matrix into smaller blocks associated with lookup tables.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
Etymology
Introduced by four Russians: V. L. Arlazarov, E. A. Dinic, M. A. Kronrod, and I. A. Faradzev, in 1970.