KWIC

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English

KWIC of the Portuguese word jeito

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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Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from English KWIC.

Pronunciation

Noun

KWIC(クイック) (kuikku

  1. (linguistics) KWIC; keyword in context

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