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Heaps' law
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English
Etymology
Named after Harold Stanley Heaps, but was originally discovered by Gustav Herdan.
Proper noun
Heaps' law
en 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.
en eponyms
en Computational linguistics