Because I was looking for a single word to describe the set of nodes
resulting from duplicate elimination.
While I can say
"factorised nodes"
it is quite awkward to say:
"duplicate-eliminated" nodes.
and
"nodes with eliminated duplicates"
is a long, 4-word phrase.
When it comes to talking about it, it differs a lot if you talk to
people that know the subject matter, and people that don't. For
instance, to some audience, I say "I do something with computers", to
another audience, I proclaim to be a "deduping nodes newbie". When
people talk to each other, quickly long phrases become shorter or even
anagrams. I don't thing there is any need for finding a new term,
because these are automatically found by people having to pronounce it
all the time.
Information Technologists quickly became IT's, "The nodes that I want to
be undone from there duplicates, after normalizing, are ..." will
quickly become "The deduped nodes are ..." (or uniquified, factorised etc).
Nobody I know of likes to pronounce tongue twisters longer than
necessary. This is true for not only the IT industry, but also for
politics, steel industry, energy firms, mathematics (maths), etc etc.
Sorry if I've gone too much off-subject.
Cheers,
Abel Braaksma
http://abelleba.metacarpus.com
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