lod
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.65 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of logarithm of odds, a measure of likelihood calculated by taking the log of the ratio of the probability of a hypothesis being true given the observed data over the probability that the hypothesis is false.
noun
Initialism of level of detail.
name
noun
Initialism of limit of detection; the smallest concentration that can be detected using a specific method.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Some computer programs furnish p-values rather than maximum lod scores."
- "Markers were analysed in decreasing order of informativeness; a marker was only added to the map when it could be localized to a unique interval with a lod score of >= 3.0."
- "Note that only recombinantion fractions between 0 and 0.5 are meaningful, and that all lod scores are zero at (theta)=0.5 (because they are then measuring the ratio of two identical probabilities, and log₁₀(1)=0)."
- "Multiresolution techniques exploit the additional information that becomes available through a level-of-detail (LoD) representation either by choosing an appropriate resolution for given quality (complexity) requirements or by considering the difference between two levels of detail as a separate geometricfrequency band which contains the detail information that is added or removed when switching between hierarchy levels."
- "They include geometric drills which allow the user to navigate between the different LoDs (Level of Detail) associated with an object or to the different geometries of a same LoD that are aimed at different purposes."
- "In the first case, we consider the complete transformation of a layer at a certain LoD in another representation of the same layer at a consecutive LoD."
Etymology
From Hebrew לוד.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: לוד