Degree Of Freedom (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. 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. any of the independent variables required to specify the energy of a molecule or atom.
noun
  1. one of the minimum number of parameters necessary to describe a state or property of a system
  2. one of the independent components of motion (translation, vibration, and rotation) of an atom or molecule
  3. one of a number of intensive properties that can be independently varied without changing the number of phases in a system
  4. one of the independent unrestricted random variables constituting a statistic
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