OOV

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/uːv/

noun

An item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.

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Meanings

nounOOV (plural OOVs)

plural OOVs

  1. broadcastingAn item in a television (especially news) broadcast consisting of pictures alone, to be played on screen while the presenter continues to talk out of vision and provide commentary.
prepositional phrase
  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputationalInitialism of out of vocabulary: describing a term encountered in the input which is not present in a system's dictionary or database of known terms.

    Rather, the n-grams are calculated as usual only for the most common k words, and all other words are regarded as Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) items and mapped to a single token such as .

    1991, Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, →ISBN, page 199

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with OOV

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Cite this entry
APA

OOV. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OOV

MLA

“OOV.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OOV. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “OOV,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/OOV.

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