Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

critical exponent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English

Syllables: crit-i-cal -ex-po-nent
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The greatest number of times that a contiguous subsequence can be repeated.

Example Sentences

"The critical exponent of "Mississippi" is 7/3, as it contains the string "ississi", which is of length 7 and period 3."

Inflected Forms

critical exponents (plural)

Questions

What does critical exponent mean?: The greatest number of times that a contiguous subsequence can be repeated.

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