loess C1 Topic:General Vocabulary US /ˈloʊ.əs/ UK /lɜːs/ See IPA manual Freq #135149 Meanings 1 noun a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind Wind-blown loess formed deep yellow soil on the plateau. 2 noun Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. Wind-blown loess formed deep yellow soil on the plateau. 3 noun Acronym of locally estimated scatterplot smoothing. Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing. Etymology Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease. Topics General Vocabulary External links Google Images Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary # loess **Type:** Word **Level:** C1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈloʊ.əs/ **IPA (UK):** /lɜːs/ **Frequency rank:** 135149 ## Meanings 1. a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind 2. Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. 3. Acronym of locally estimated scatterplot smoothing. ## Examples - Wind-blown loess formed deep yellow soil on the plateau. - Wind-blown loess formed deep yellow soil on the plateau. - Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing. ## Etymology Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease. ## Topics - General Vocabulary markdown