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the blurry edge where logic admits it doesn't know everything and shrugs adorably.
means Covered in soft fluff or fine hair; or, of an image, idea, or sound, lacking sharp definition or clarity.
from From 'fuzz,' a word for light, downy fibers that likely arrived from Dutch or Low German — compare the Dutch 'voos,' meaning spongy or full of holes. It surfaced in English around the 17th century, perhaps as a description of the loose lint shed by cloth and beans. The '-y' ending turned the stuff into a quality, and over time the literal fluff softened into the figurative: thoughts and memories that, like a worn blanket, have lost their crisp outlines.
- math field
- Fuzzy logic uses values between true and false
- named 1965
- Lotfi Zadeh coined fuzzy sets that year
- runs machines
- Rice cookers and subways use fuzzy controllers
- peach defense
- Fuzz deters insects and reduces water loss
- sound word
- Fuzz pedals deliberately distort guitar signals
fuzzy wuzzy bear — children's nursery rhyme character popularized in 1896 'fuzzy wuzzy was a bear'
fuzzy logic — mathematical system developed by lotfi zadeh at uc berkeley in 1965 for handling approximate reasoning
fuzzy matching algorithm — computational technique used in dna sequencing and spell-check software since the 1980s