double descent

noun

The presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.

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Meanings

noundouble descent (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe presence of both patrilineal and matrilineal descent groups in a society.
  2. uncountablemachine learningmathematicsThe phenomenon where a model with few parameters and a model with many parameters have a small test error, but a model whose number of parameters is about the same as the number of data points used to train the model will have a large error.
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APA

double descent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20descent

MLA

“double descent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20descent. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “double descent,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/double%20descent.

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