English

frecency

Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.

Proto-Italic *frekʷents

Latin frequens ‘crowded, crammed, packed’

Latin frequentia ‘crowd, multitude, throng’

Proto-Indo-European *ken- ‘new, fresh’

Latin recens ‘new, recent, lately, newly, green, refreshed’

Latin recentia

The story

Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.

noun Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.

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Etymograph / frecency