Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bloom filter

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English

Syllables: bloom -fil-ter
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.

Example Sentences

"A Bloom filter is a set-like data structure that is highly efficient in its use of space. It supports two operations only: insertion and membership querying."

Etymology

Conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970.

Inflected Forms

Bloom filters (plural)

Questions

What does bloom filter mean?: A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are possible, but false negatives are not.
Where does bloom filter come from?: Conceived by Burton Howard Bloom in 1970.

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