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parsimony
n.
miserliness, stinginess; extreme frugality or thriftiness
Occam's razor
Occam's razor (also written as
Ockham's razor, and
lex parsimoniae in
Latin, which means
law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed to
William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English
Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian. The principle can be interpreted as stating
Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.
parsimony
Noun
1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
(synonym) parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching
(hypernym) frugality, frugalness
2. extreme stinginess
(synonym) meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
(hypernym) stinginess
(hyponym) pettiness
Parsimony
(n.)
Closeness or sparingness in the expenditure of money; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Parsimony
The scientific convention whereby the simplest explanation is preferred over the others. This is usually a phylogenetic tree requiring the fewest evolutionary steps.
