loess
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Is loess a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (geology) Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.Examples: "The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain."; "They blast their sand westwards across the steppe, coating the foothills of the Brooks Range in an icing-sugar dust of the loose, windblown sand-silt mixture known as loess."countableuncountable
noun (English)
1. (statistics) Acronym of locally estimated scatterplot smoothing.Examples: "Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing."abbreviationacronymalt-of
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