loess
5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr
noun
a fine-grained unstratified accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
Loess in a sentence
The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.
Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing.
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