This Choreo retrieves the definition of a given word. The documentation for this Wordnik method can be found here.
Here is an example of acceptable inputs:
APIKey: {YOUR API KEY}
Word: frequency
The following is a sample of the information returned by this Choreo:
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.",
"sequence": "0",
"score": 0.0,
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Mathematics & Physics The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified interval, as:",
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"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.",
"sequence": "2",
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"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Mathematics & Physics The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.",
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"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Mathematics & Physics The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.",
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"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Statistics The number of measurements in an interval of a frequency distribution.",
"sequence": "5",
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"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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{
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"word": "frequency",
"text": "Statistics The ratio of the number of times an event occurs in a series of trials of a chance experiment to the number of trials of the experiment performed.",
"sequence": "6",
"score": 0.0,
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"attributionText": "from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition"
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