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名詞

long tail (plural long tails)

1. (marketing, sometimes capitalized) Sales made for less usual goods within a very large choice, which can return a profit through reduced marketing and distribution costs.
   • 2004 October, Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”, in Wired‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 January 2016:

     What’s really amazing about the Long Tail is the sheer size of it. Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you’ve got a market bigger than the hits.

   • 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Eric Schmidt, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

     “I would like to tell you that the Internet has made such a level playing field that the Long Tail is absolutely the place to be, that there's so much differentiation, so much diversity, so many new voices. I'd love to tell you that that's in fact how it really works. Unfortunately, it's not,” Schmidt said.

2. (statistics) The tail of a distribution that represents the rare occurrence of extreme values.

参考

• big head
• power law
• tail risk

Further reading

• long tail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

発音

名詞

longtail (plural longtails)

1. Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
2. (Bermuda) Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird.
3. (Bermuda, by extension) A young, unattached female tourist.
4. A longtail boat.
5. (colloquial, Isle of Man) A rat.
6. (slang) A pheasant.
7. (slang) A greyhound.

使用する際の注意点

The Manx colloquial usage derives from a relatively modern superstition that it is considered bad luck to use the word "rat".

派生語

参照

• (pheasant; greyhound): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary