degree of freedom

de·gree of free·dom

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- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [dih-gree uhv, ov free-duh m]
- /dɪˈgri ʌv, ɒv ˈfri dəm/
- /dɪˈɡriː əv ˈfriːdəm/

Definitions of degree of freedom words

noun degree of freedom one of the minimum number of parameters necessary to describe a state or property of a system 3
noun degree of freedom one of the independent components of motion (translation, vibration, and rotation) of an atom or molecule 3
noun degree of freedom one of a number of intensive properties that can be independently varied without changing the number of phases in a system 3
noun degree of freedom one of the independent unrestricted random variables constituting a statistic 3
noun degree of freedom Statistics. any of the statistically independent values of a sample that are used to determine a property of the sample, as the mean or variance. 1
noun degree of freedom Physical Chemistry. any of the independent variables required to specify the energy of a molecule or atom. 1

before 1900

One of the 17% newest English words

First recorded in 1900-05

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