wordwise

adj, adv — 4 senses

wordwise

adj

Etymology From word + -wise.

1

Of or characteristic of a word or words; verbal.

  • Wordwise feedback produced significantly higher gains than listwise.1995, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts:
  • Both the wordwise and sentencewise results are computed (in %) applied for the user state recognition in our case due to the construction of […]2006, Wolfgang Wahlster, SmartKom: foundations of multimodal dialogue systems:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

wordwise

adv

Etymology From word + -wise.

1

Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding words; verbally.

  • Turn the page and get an edge in wordwise.2005, Charles Harrington Elster, What in the word?:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

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