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Definition: 155 |
155Adjective1. Being five more than one hundred fifty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: 155Synonyms: clv (adj), one hundred fifty-five (adj). (additional references) |
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Centuries: 1st century - 2nd century - 3rd century
Decades: 100s 110s 120s 130s 140s - 150s - 160s 170s 180s 190s 200s
Years: 150 151 152 153 154 - 155 - 156 157 158 159 160 Events
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Crosswords: 155 |
| Specialty definitions using "155": Crambe bis Cocta ♦ National forest ♦ Optical Carrier 3. (references) |
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![]() | "Hoquiam, in the Great Grays Harbor Country". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 155. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | Pl. XLI. 154. Aldrovandria rostrata, (Gunther) Goode and Bean. From Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. XXII. 155, 155A. Aldrovandia macrochira, (Gunther), Goode and Bean. From off Havana in 242 fathoms. 156. Aldrovandia phalacrus, (Vaillant), Goode and Bean. From Vaillant, "Expeditions Scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman.". Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Plate 155. The Blue Sunfish or Copper-Nose. Lepomis pallidus (Mitch.), J. & G. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Hammond, Ind., 1942(?), six men inspecting and painting 155 mm. shells at the Pullman Standard Car Plant where freight cars were formerly made--Discs being screwed on shell nose (right foreground) act as wheels to keep them rolling in straight line on pro. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1943. 155 mm. howitzer. The 155 mm. howitzer, firing on the Fort Sill, Oklahoma artillery range, provides a mass of heavy, high-angle firepower. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Production. Shell loading. Molten TNT is poured into 75 mm. shells at a large Midwest loading plant. Shells from 20 mm. to 155 mm. are loaded at this plant in addition to special shells required by the British. Ravenna ordnance plant. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant labor camp. Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. 155 migrant families in camp. One third had no work; two-thirds were finding part-time work harvesting spring peas, earning on average (head of family) four do. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Fellheimer & Wagner, 155 E. 42nd St., New York City. Copy negative Lorimer, rendering of Turnpike bridge. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | More than 1 million Americans will develop cancer during 1989. These newly diagnosed malignancies will include 228,000 gastrointestinal cancers, 155,000 lung cancers, 143,000 invasive breast carcinomas, 40,000 lymphomas, and 27,000 cases of leukemia. (references) | |
Business | The SDH technology is mainly used, enabling speeds up to 2,488 Gbps in backbone networks, and 622 Mbps and 155 Mbps in regional networks. (references) | |
Cablevision-TCI additionally runs a subsidiary company, Fibertel-TCI, which transmits data at baud rates from 2 Mbps to 155 Mbps on their CATV network. (references) | ||
A total of 155 companies from 17 different countries were represented at the Seoul Air Show held in 1998, including twenty-seven U.S. aerospace and defense companies doing business in Korea. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Ghana | It was reported that 155 children up to age 5 received the vaccine. (references) |
Economic History | St. Lucia | Population (1999): 155,000. (references) |
Egypt | Banking Law 155 of 1998 permits private sector ownership of Egypt's four public sector banks. (references) | |
Minorities | Hong Kong | Similar organizations work for the interests of Philippine domestic helpers, of whom there are approximately 155,000. According to organizations representing migrant workers, police intimidation of migrant workers also is a problem. (references) |
Political Economy | Saint Lucia | The country's population is approximately 155,000. In 2000 the country had its tenth consecutive year of real economic growth. (references) |
EGYPT | In another significant development, Law 155 was passed in 1998. It provided the constitutional basis needed for privatization of the four largest public sector banks. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Morocco | The preferred targets were girls aged under 14. According to the weekly newsmagazine Maroc Hebdo International, as of October 26, 155 persons had been prosecuted for the sexual exploitation of children. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "155" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "155" is used about 174 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 174 | 23,577 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
alfa romeo 155 | 42 |
alfa 155 | 24 |
hp color copier 155 | 15 |
155 ford nf | 7 |
ec 155 | 7 |
155 cartridge df xd xerox | 6 |
155 mbps | 5 |
155 ec eurocopter | 4 |
155 nf | 3 |
155 howitzer | 3 |
155 howitzer mm | 3 |
155 optimus sa | 3 |
155 d komatsu | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)31 35 35 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00110001 00110101 00110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)1 5 5 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0031 0035 0035 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)192323 |
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