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loess¹
- /lɜːs/ UK
- /ˈləʊɪs/ UK
- /ˈloʊ.əs/ US
- /lɛs/ US
- /lʌs/ US
Rhymes with -ɜːs, -əʊɪs, -oʊəs, -ʌs
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Löss (“yellowish-gray soil”), from Alemannic German lösch (“loose”). Cognate with German los and English lease.
noun loesses · löss
- Any sediment, dominated by silt, of eolian (wind-blown) origin. The Yellow River—the “Sorrow of China”—comes down from the loess hills into the great plain of China on a gently sloping fan. The river has two possible outlets to the sea, the one north of the Shantung Peninsula into the Gulf of Chihli, the other some hundreds of miles to the south of the Peninsula
LOESS²
noun LOESSes
- Acronym of locally estimated scatterplot smoothing Locally weighted regression, or loess, is a procedure for fitting a regression surface to data through multivariate smoothing.
Translations
Talk about this word "loess." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/loess. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. loess. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/loess "loess." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/loess.Cite this
@misc{loess_2026,
title = {loess},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/loess},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
