overall frequency

collocation in English

meaningsofoverallandfrequency

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overall
adverb[before noun]
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈrɔːl/
us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈɑːl/
in general rather than in particular, or including all the people or things in a particular group ...
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frequency
noun
uk
/ˈfriː.kwən.si/
us
/ˈfriː.kwən.si/
the number of times something happens within a particular period, or the fact of something happening often or a large number ...
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However, the 'differences in the functional use of these discourse features are probably more important than theoverallfrequency'(p. 86).
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Theoverallfrequencyresponse of hot-wire and amplifiers was flat from 20 to 20,000 c/s, provided the compensation was properly adjusted.
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Moreover, nooverallfrequencycan be inferred. 19.
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It corresponds to the personality attribute of stoicism or persistence in that the persistence of behavior may be unrelated to itsoverallfrequencyor probability.
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Species arranged in decreasing order ofoverallfrequencyof occurrence (%) across all fragments.
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Table 7 summarizes the number of occurrences of alleles occurring at anoverallfrequencyof less than 2%.
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However, the study examined only one context, and its analysis was limited to theoverallfrequencyof nouns and verbs.
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In fact, theoverallfrequencyof talk-focused talk was very similar in the two groups.
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From this we can tabulate theoverallfrequencyof periphrastic did in its context of use.
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Theoverallfrequencyof the progressive only increases significantly during the second half of the nineteenth century.
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For the analyses, these three categories were combined into a single measure ofoverallfrequencyof children's nonverbal attentionsharing behaviours.
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This suggests that theoverallfrequencyof events may be less helpful in explaining the onset of depressive symptoms than other key dimensions.
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The explanation of differences in revision of prepositions is related to theoverallfrequencyof the forms in each language.
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These particular adverbs were selected because of theiroverallfrequencyin the data studied.
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Object 0-relatives provide a clear example of the importance of searching for and eliminating significant confounds before drawing conclusions fromoverallfrequencypatterns.
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Wijnen (1992) reported a higheroverallfrequencyof speech errors in children compared to adults but a lower incidence of phonologically similar lexical substitutions.
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