pycnophylactic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If intrazonal homogeneity cannot be maintained in cases where similar land uses lie in adjacent zones and dissimilar land uses lie within the same zone, then the pycnophylactic method may be favored."
- "Although the pycnophylactic method is arguably more appropriate for isopleth mapping than point-based interpolation methods, it must be emphasized that the method should only be used with continuous phenomenon."
- "We iterated the algorithm with 20 census variables (see Section 1.3.3) to obtain population density surfaces. In all cases, the pycnophylactic property [85] was verified by adding population density surface pixels and comparing them with their original values."
Etymology
From pycno- + phylactic. Coined by Waldo Tobler in his 1979 paper "Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions", Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 74, number 367, pages 519-536.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: pycno