Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

poissonian

/pwɑˈsoʊ.ni.ən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pois-so-ni-an
IPA: /pwɑˈsoʊ.ni.ən/

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to the Poisson distribution.

noun

A Poisson distribution.

Example Sentences

"We saw that the observation of Poissonian and super-Poissonian statistics could be explained by classical wave theory, but not sub-Poissonian statistics."
"Analysis of the actual data is plotted as a solid line, the corresponding distribution made by superimposing Poissonians is shown as a dotted line, and the exponential decay with same mean interval as the solid line is shown as a dashed line."

Etymology

From Poisson + -ian.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Poisson

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /pwɑˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
British English: /pwɑːˈsəʊ.ni.ən/

Inflected Forms

Poissonians (plural)

Rhymes With

smithsonian estonian macedonian babylonian caledonian devonian draconian amazonian hamiltonian newtonian ionian oregonian

Questions

How do you pronounce poissonian?: The recorded pronunciation is /pwɑˈsoʊ.ni.ən/.
What does poissonian mean?: Of or pertaining to the Poisson distribution.
Where does poissonian come from?: From Poisson + -ian.

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