DEGREE OF FREEDOM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("degree of freedom" is a kind of...):

variable; variable quantity (a quantity that can assume any of a set of values)

Domain category:

statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)

Sense 2

Meaning:

One of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system