base rate
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated; a policy rate.
noun
A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated; a policy rate.
British usage
noun
The background rate of occurrence of any phenomenon, which informs any logical analysis of its rate of occurrence under any subset of circumstances; especially, the proportion of individuals in a population who have a certain characteristic (e.g., trait, experience, circumstance), irrespective of any treatment effects in a treatment group of a scientific study.
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- British usage