Q-value

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From communication value; coined by Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan.

Noun[edit]

Q-value (plural Q-values)

  1. A measure of the communicative utility of a human language, computed as the product of the language's centrality and its prevalence.
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