similarity
- noun
- /ˌsɪməˈlærɪti/
- Specialized
- 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.
- But what we found was that, yes, there were these, these latent similarities.
Examples
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The weight function W(i, j) depends on the similarity between the two pixels i and j.
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On several occasions, Anatsui has discussed these artists and the similarity of their work to his own.
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So it's going to be asking for more and more similarity across the tasks.
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And we're given some kind of similarity threshold, let's say shown in red here.
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Pretest scores were used to determine the similarity of the two groups.
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So now the main question for this step is how do we compute the similarity between two trajectories?
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The magnitude of the correlation represented the degree of similarity between two personal profiles of co-occurrences.
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The focus-group discussion results were analyzed from two perspectives: similarities and differences.
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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
A likeness in how two people or things look
A close match that shows two things are similar
A likeness in how two things look or behave
The fact of being similar in how something looks or behaves
People or things that seem very similar to each other
Antonyms
Compounds
How Similar
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.