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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An applet by which word clouds can be created on a computer.
  • noun A word cloud made by means of this applet.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Coined by Jonathan Feinberg (born 1967), American software engineer who developed the applet .]

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