Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chain rule

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English

Syllables: chain rule
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions.

Example Sentences

"The backward() function uses PyTorch's automatic differentiation package, torch.autograd, to differentiate and compute gradients of tensors based on the chain rule."

Phrases

Faà di Bruno's formula power rule

Frequently Paired Words

Faà di Bruno's formula power rule

Questions

What does chain rule mean?: A formula for computing the derivative of the functional composition of two or more functions.

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