Heaps' law

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

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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.