单词 | soundex |
释义 | Soundexn. Phonetics and Computing. Used, usually attributive, with reference to a phonetic coding system intended to suppress spelling variations, used esp. in Medicine to encode surnames for record linkage. Also absol., material encoded using the Soundex code. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > [noun] > encoding > phonetic Soundex1959 1959 Science 16 Oct. 955/3 The surnames were first reduced to phonetic codes, consisting in each case of the first letter of the name followed by three numeric digits and known as the Russell Soundex Code. 1968 Brit. Med. Bull. 24 207/2 The master file of identities of patients is held on magnetic tape in a quasi-alphabetical sequence, based on the Soundex code of surnames. 1970 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 1 117 No simple strategy such as ‘search one Soundex pocket before and one after’ will enable us to effect more linkages. 1970 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 1 117 We..first applied our pretreatments to all surnames in our test file..and then applied the files of Soundex to the pretreated surnames. 1972 Computers & Humanities 6 190 In the first attempt a quasi-alphabetic sequence known as the Soundex code, which has been used in the field of medical record linkage, was utilized. The Soundex system sets aside the least reliable portions of Anglo-Saxon surnames, thus Smith/Smyth/Smythe all are codified the same. Derivatives Soundex-code v. (transitive) to encode (a name or other data) using this code. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > database > use data [verb (transitive)] > encode > using Soundex Soundex-code1959 1959 Science 16 Oct. 958/1 The family names on all cards in both files were Soundex coded by means of the computer. Soundex-coded adj. ΚΠ 1967 Amer. Jrnl. Human Genetics 19 340 The usefulness of surname information in its Soundex coded form can be shown to be considerably greater than that of the full alphabetic surnames. Soundex coding n. ΚΠ 1970 Jrnl. Interdisciplinary Hist. 1 116 Our data are apparently twice as resistant to Soundex coding as Nitzberg's. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1959 |
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