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Poisson

Noun

Sense 1:

A French term for fish.

Example sentence:

I ordered the poisson du jour at the local French restaurant.

Sense 2:

Mathematics: A discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space.

Example sentence:

The number of phone calls received in a call center within a specific time period can be modeled using a Poisson distribution.

Sense 3:

Physics: A Poisson process is a stochastic process that counts the number of events occurring within a fixed interval of time or space.

Example sentence:

The arrival and departure of particles in a radioactive decay process can be described using a Poisson process.

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