noun
- Computer programs or tools that search through text to find and display all occurrences of a particular word or phrase, along with the surrounding context.
Usage: technical; linguistics; plural form of concordancer
Examples
- Linguists use concordancers to analyze how words are used in large text collections.
- Modern concordancers can process millions of words in seconds.
- The software includes several built-in concordancers for different languages.
- Researchers rely on concordancers to identify patterns in language usage.
- These concordancers display each word occurrence with its surrounding sentences.