Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

keypoint

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: key-point
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Part of a valley where the lower and flatter portion of the primary valley floor suddenly becomes steeper, used in computing a keyline for the efficient planning of water usage.

noun

An important point in an image, used in computer vision systems when detecting objects etc.

noun

An identifier for a point in time, especially within a digital recording; a timestamp.

Example Sentences

"We use a deep convolutional neural network within an expectation maximization framework to take advantage of weakly labeled data like image level annotations or keypoint annotations."

Etymology

From key + point.

Inflected Forms

keypoints (plural)

Questions

What does keypoint mean?: Part of a valley where the lower and flatter portion of the primary valley floor suddenly becomes steeper, used in computing a keyline for the efficient planning of water usage.
Where does keypoint come from?: From key + point.

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