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Unsupervised

Definition: Unsupervised

Unsupervised

Adjective

1. Not supervised or under constant observation; "the school maintains unsupervised study halls during free periods"; "reliable workers are generally unsupervised".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Unsupervised

Synonyms by domain: learning by discovery (computing), learning from observation and discovery, learning without a teacher, unsupervised classification (post & telecom), unsupervised learning (computing), unsupervised learning procedure (medicine), unsupervised neural network (computing).
Antonym: supervised (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Unsupervised

DomainTitle

Books

  • Supervised and Unsupervised Pattern Recognition: Feature Extraction and Computational Intelligence (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unsupervised

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Venezuela

The authorities in Caracas and several other jurisdictions tried to cope with the phenomenon of street children by continuing to impose curfews for unsupervised minors. (references)

Economic History

Togo

However, due to irregularities in the plebiscite, an unsupervised general election was held in 1958 and won by Sylvanus Olympio. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Model prisoners who have served more than one-third of their sentences are allowed unsupervised meetings with visitors and are exempt from mail censorship. (references)

Trade

Guatemala

After the failure of some unsupervised financial institutions in late 1998 and early 1999, the Congress approved a deposit insurance program, which has yet to be funded. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unsupervised

"Unsupervised" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsupervised" is used about 65 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6541,645

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unsupervised

Expressions using "unsupervised": unsupervised classification unsupervised learning. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unsupervised

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

unsupervised

8

introduction learning unsupervised

5

child unsupervised

3

learning network neural unsupervised

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unsupervised

Language Translations for "unsupervised"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

未 监督. (various references)

   

German

  

nicht überwacht. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χωρίς επίβλεψη. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upervisedunsay

   

Russian 

  

безнадзорный. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unsupervised"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unsupervised" (pronounced unsuw"pervī'zd)
8-s uw" p er v ī' z dsupervised.
4-v ī' z dcollectivized, improvised, televised.
3-ī' z daccessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, analyzed, anglicized, annualized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, capsized, caramelized, carbonized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, circumcised, civilized, collateralized, colonized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, criticized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demonized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, disenfranchised, disorganized, downsized, dramatized, editorialized, emphasized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, excised, exercised, familiarized, fantasized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, galvanized, generalized, globalized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, hospitalized, humanized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, hypothesized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, immunized, industrialized, internalized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, lionized, localized, magnetized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, mechanized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, metastasized, midsized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, modernized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, nonunionized, normalized, organized, ostracized, outsized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, patronized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, politicized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, publicized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, recognized, regionalized, reorganized, revitalized, revolutionized, romanticized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, symbolized, sympathized, synchronized, synthesized, tantalized, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, undersized, underutilized, unexercised, unionized, unorganized, unrealized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, urbanized, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, westernized, winterized.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unsupervised

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-n-p-r-s-s-u-u-v"

-2 letters: supervised.

-3 letters: dispenser, supervise, suspender, universes, unpressed, unrevised.

-4 letters: deprives, despiser, devisers, direness, dispense, disperse, disserve, dissever, diureses, duperies, enuresis, erepsins, insureds, inverses, penuries, presides, prevised, previses, prunuses, pureness, reissued, residues, resupine, ripeness, rudeness, spenders, sundries, suspired, unissued, universe, unserved, unversed, uredines, versines.

-5 letters: deniers, depress, deprive, derives, desires, despise, deveins, deviser, devises, diseuse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unsupervised


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 75 70 65 72 76 69 73 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01110110 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#117 &#112 &#101 &#114 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0075 0070 0065 0072 0076 0069 0073 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558085878271848875857170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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