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similarity

similarity

7 4.5
A number used by computers that shows how much two items are alike
  • noun
  • /ˌsɪməˈlærɪti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : similitud
  • The blue color denotes the similarity between samples, while the red color denotes disparity.
  • similarity coefficient
  • similarity measure
  • degree of similarity

But what we found was that, yes, there were these, these latent similarities.

Examples

  • The weight function W(i, j) depends on the similarity between the two pixels i and j.

    Academic text (2017)
  • On several occasions, Anatsui has discussed these artists and the similarity of their work to his own.

    Academic text (2008)
  • So it's going to be asking for more and more similarity across the tasks.

  • And we're given some kind of similarity threshold, let's say shown in red here.

  • Pretest scores were used to determine the similarity of the two groups.

    Academic text (2013)
  • So now the main question for this step is how do we compute the similarity between two trajectories?

  • The magnitude of the correlation represented the degree of similarity between two personal profiles of co-occurrences.

    Academic text (1999)
  • The focus-group discussion results were analyzed from two perspectives: similarities and differences.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Software aligns multiple sequences with a percentage of 76.94 similarity index in the DNA of nine grape varieties.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The similarity between the two data sets was evaluated using the Jaccard index.

Synonyms

resemblance
vssimilarity
105 3.0

A likeness in how two people or things look

is calculated as a numerical value not just observed likeness
correspondence
vssimilarity
24 4.2

A close match that shows two things are similar

is a numeric score computed by algorithms to show how alike data objects are
similitude
vssimilarity
  • Literature
1 9.8

A likeness in how two things look or behave

is expressed as a computed numeric value rather than a general likeness
alikeness
vssimilarity
6.8

The fact of being similar in how something looks or behaves

is a precise algorithmic measure giving a numeric score
mutual resemblance
vssimilarity
4.4

People or things that seem very similar to each other

is an algorithmic score comparing items not just reciprocal likeness

Antonyms

A state when two things or people are not alike

Compounds

law of similarity
  • Specialized
7.1

People see things that look alike as a group

How Similar

identity
  • Specialized
15 6.5
similarity
  • Specialized
7 4.5

Surface Forms

similarity singular
similarities plural

Morphology

similarity = similar (transparent) = similar + ity

Morphologically identical to the general noun but used in a technical sense as a quantitative measure; the meaning as 'degree/measure of being similar' is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Similarity keeps the root simil- ('like'), so in computing it names a number or score that shows how 'alike' two items are. That's why a higher similarity value means a computer program sees the two items as more alike.