word cloudnoun [ C ]
/ˈwɜːd ˌklaʊd//ˈwɝːd ˌklaʊd/an electronic image that shows words used in a particular piece of electronic text or series of texts. The words are different sizes according to how often they are used in the text. :
We asked the participants to tell us their top three personal values and then created a word cloud out of their responses.
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- The technology gurus then built a "word cloud" showing the 100 most frequently used words in the responses.
- To find the most important keywords, use a word cloud as pictured above, which visualizes the words being used so that you can see which ones seem to be occurring more than others.
- You can automatically generate a word cloud from your Google Alerts.
- To provide you with a good idea of how members replied to these questions, I created two word clouds based on the replies.