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General Category => Words => Topic started by: ridethetalk on May 30, 2023, 06:56:22 PM
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HEATMAP – a way to visualise the abundance of terms (https://compote.slate.com/images/07735032-ee37-4859-99e4-f45959ceff23.png)
HEATLAMP – I couldn’t find a reference but thought this made sense as a therapeutic ‘thing’ (would also qualify as a seed word)
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Couldn't see PAMPHLET - but my helpmate of almost 48 years came to the rescue.
Didn't try HEATLAMP or AMPLEHEATH - desperation has its limits!
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Some of the Oxford dictionaries have heat map, as a two-word compound, but no heatmap. Wiktionary has the single-word format as an alternate form, and also as a verb, meaning "to create a heat map". Other dictionaries have neither variant.
The term, in both forms, is certainly in use. I'm not sure that the image you use is a good example of a heatmap, RTT. It's generally defined as a diagram using different colours to represent varying data values. here's an example, from the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_map) on the subject:
(https://theforum.lexigame.com/World_heat_map.png)
This example literally displays heat, but it could be any variable: average income, populations density, etc.
Use of the word heatmap is not confined to specialist writings. For example, on 31 May, in the Yorkshire Evening Post:
Environet has launched its own interactive heatmap designed to inform homeowners and homebuyers of the local presence of knotweed and the potential risk to their property.
The word is occasionally used as a verb, as in this quote from Associated Press in 2021:
PatientBond has heatmapped the entire United States down to the block level according to the five psychographic segments, so we can be very precise in helping healthcare providers engage their communities with the appropriate messaging.
I'll add heatmap, heatmapping and heatmapped, all as rare words.
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The term, in both forms, is certainly in use. I'm not sure that the image you use is a good example of a heatmap, RTT. It's generally defined as a diagram using different colours to represent varying data values.
This example literally displays heat, but it could be any variable: average income, populations density, etc.
As someone singularly concerned over climate change, how could I possibly have missed this obvious example!!! :-R :-R :-R
Thanks Alan...
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Heat lamp is in some dictionaries as a two-word expression, but I didn't see any that had it as a single word. And usage vastly favours the two-word form. I don't think heatlamp should be added to Chi.
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We shouldn't be using them anyway!!! >:D >:D >:D Thanks anyway, Alan... ;D ;D ;D