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Noun: degree of freedom
  1. (statistics) an unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution
     
  2. One of the minimum number of parameters needed to describe the state of a physical system

Derived forms: degrees of freedom

Type of: parameter, parametric quantity, variable, variable quantity

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