shingle
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- noun
- /ˈʃɪŋɡəl/
- Specialized
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Examples
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Except for the truck idling under him, he could be coming on it as a young man, toward its familiar face in the rain, the spruce shingles weathered gray, the green-trimmed windows, the steep gables that shed all but the thickest snow.
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In computational linguistics, a shingle can refer to a sequence of two words used for document comparison.
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Researchers often use a shingle of characters to improve text similarity algorithms in their projects.
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To detect near-duplicates, the program analyzes overlapping shingles from the documents being compared.
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Etymology
Shingle (noun, computing) for a short group of words is a modern use that borrows the image of roof shingles as small overlapping pieces, so these word 'pieces' overlap to help compare or rebuild whole documents.