Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

anticaricature

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-ti-car-i-ca-ture
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.

Example Sentences

"A number of experiments have looked at anticaricatures, that is interpolations of the individual face towards the average, and even antifaces, which extrapolate the original face onto the other side of the mean (Blanz et al. 2000)."

Etymology

From anti- + caricature.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Inflected Forms

anticaricatures (plural)

Questions

What does anticaricature mean?: In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look more like the average face.
Where does anticaricature come from?: From anti- + caricature.

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