loess

Meanings

1. 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. 2
   noun

   Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin.

   Wind-blown loess formed deep yellow soil on the plateau.

3. 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.

Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.

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