KWIC

English

Etymology

Coined by IBM research engineer Hans Peter Luhn.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “deliberately homophonous with quick?”)

Noun

KWIC (plural KWICs)

  1. (linguistics) Initialism of keyword in context: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.

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Anagrams

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English KWIC.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝik̚kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

KWIC(クイック) • (kuikku) 

  1. (linguistics) KWIC; keyword in context

Synonyms
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