Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

knuthian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: knuthi-an
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.

Example Sentences

"The purpose of this paper is to present an algebraic treatment of Knuth's approach to the specification of the semantics of context-free languages. Knuthian systems, hereinafter called K-systems, have been called declarative semantics, K-grammars and attributed grammars."
"This page lists bugs in the original (Knuthian) TeX distribution which have been received since the last tune-up[.]"

Etymology

From Knuth + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Knuth

Questions

What does knuthian mean?: Of or relating to the work, or theory developed from the work, of American computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth.
Where does knuthian come from?: From Knuth + -ian.

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