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culturomics
[ kuhl-chuh-roh-miks, ‐-rom-iks ]
noun
, (used with a singular verb)
- the study of human culture and cultural trends over time by means of quantitative analysis of words and phrases in a very large corpus of digitized texts:
Culturomics can pinpoint periods of accelerated language change.
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- cultu·romic adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of culturomics1
2010; cultur(e) + -omics , as in genomics
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