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lévy flight

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.08 in modern English

Syllables
levy flight
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.

Etymology

Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).

Inflected Forms

Lévy flights (plural)

Phrases

Lévy glass

Frequently Paired Words

Lévy glass

Synonyms

Lévy walk

Questions

What does lévy flight mean?
A type of random walk in which the increments are distributed according to a “heavy-tailed” distribution i.e. there are a significant number of large increments.
Where does lévy flight come from?
Named after French mathematician Paul Pierre Lévy (1886–1971).

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