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Definition of 'least squares' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) least squares
a statistical method of estimating values from a set of observations by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observations and the values to be found.

Etymology:  (1860–65)

Definition of 'least squares' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) least squares, method of least squares
a method of fitting a curve to data points so as to minimize the sum of the squares of the distances of the points from the curve

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