linguistic similarity

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandsimilarity

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withsimilarity.
linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
See more atlinguistic
similarity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us
/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
See more atsimilarity

(Definition oflinguisticandsimilarityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflinguistic similarity

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Therefore, the ravages of age are possible to overcome and variance from such factors aslinguisticsimilarityoverrides some of these effects.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Perhaps a difference like this should cause us to set thelinguisticsimilarityindex at zero, which would produce zero influence, essentially what we see at the phonetic level.
From theCambridge English Corpus
What we currently lack is a clear and agreed means of reinforcing and replicating these intuitions by comparing them with objective measures oflinguisticsimilarityor difference.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Trudgill (1974) proposed that distance, population, andlinguisticsimilarityare crucial factors in determining diffusion patterns.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The same approach tolinguisticsimilarityis adopted here, but more explicit use has been made of similarities in phonological structure as the main criterion for ranking.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Linguisticsimilarityand geographic proximity was generally considered to be an inadequate basis for a nation-state.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Intrinsic plagiarism detection using stylometry can overcome the boundaries of textual similarity to some extent by comparinglinguisticsimilarity.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The populations showed genetic andlinguisticsimilarity, barring a few groups with varied migratory histories.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Automatic word alignment makes use of distributional properties and linguistic similarities between translation equivalents.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This difference led early ethnographers to refer to them as different groups until linguistic similarities proved their close relationship.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition oflinguistic
Go to the definition ofsimilarity
See other collocations withsimilarity