Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

power law

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.19 in modern English

Syllables: pow-er law
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x)=axᵏ).

Example Sentences

"the death toll from a large number of small civil wars is lower than that from a few big interstate wars, to say nothing of world wars, consistent with the power-law distribution of deadly quarrels."

Inflected Forms

power laws (plural)

Synonyms

stevens' law stevens' power law

Questions

What does power law mean?: A mathematical relationship in which the magnitude of something is proportional to a fixed power of the magnitude of something else (i.e. the relationship takes the form f(x)=axᵏ).

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