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hartley

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈhɑːtli//
  • United States//ˈhɑɹtli//

A unit of information (symbol Hart) representing the information content of an event if the probability of that event occurring is 1/10. It is therefore equal to the information contained in one decimal digit

noun

  1. 1

    A unit of information (symbol Hart) representing the information content of an event if the probability of that event occurring is 1/10. It is therefore equal to the information contained in one decimal digit

Etymology

Named after Ralph Hartley (1888–1970), electronics researcher.

Forms

plural
hartleys
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).