synonym ring
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.12 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A synonym ring is a set of words or phrases (which are regarded as synonymous). A thesaurus is a set of trees whose nodes are synonym rings."
- "Each term in a synonym ring is equally likely to occur in any relevant article and so it is necessary to search for them all rather than one preferred term."
- "A synonym ring (see Figure 9-2) connects a set of words that are defined as equivalent for the purposes of retrieval. In practice, these words are often not true synonyms."