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1. (n.) degree of freedom
any of the statistically independent values of a sample that are used to determine a property of the sample, as the mean or variance.
2. degree of freedom
any of the independent variables required to specify the energy of a molecule or atom.
Etymology: (1900–05)
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1. (noun) degree of freedom
(statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
2. (noun) degree of freedom
one of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system
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