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Hyperwebster

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Etymology

From hyper- + Webster, coined by English mathematician Ian Stewart in 1996 in his book From Here to Infinity.

  1. inherited from webbestre
  2. inherited from webbestere
  3. formed as hyperwebster — “hyper- + Webster”

Definitions

  1. A theoretical dictionary that contains every possible word of every length using the 26…

    A theoretical dictionary that contains every possible word of every length using the 26 letters found in the English language.

    • According to Stewart, by removing the first letter in every word, we can produce another copy of the Hyperwebster from each of its volumes; that is, 26 identical copies will be generated.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Hyperwebster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA