English Dictionary

Gunning fog index

固有名詞

A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.

日本語の意味

文章の読解難易度を評価する指標で、文章中の平均文の長さと、3音節以上の単語の割合から、内容の理解に必要な正式な教育年数を推定するもの。

The editor used the Gunning fog index to determine whether the article was accessible to high school readers.

編集者は、文章を初見で理解するのに必要な学歴年数を推定する読みやすさ指標であるガニング・フォグ指数を使って、その記事が高校生にも理解できるかどうかを判断した。

意味（1）

A readability metric for English writing, estimating how many years of formal education a person needs in order to understand the text on the first reading. It is based on the average sentence length and the proportion of words of three or more syllables.

the Gunning fog index （ canonical ）