Heaps' law

English

Etymology

Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.

Noun

Heaps' law

  1. (linguistics) An empirical law that expresses the correlation between the length of a document or set of documents and the corresponding number of distinct words.
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