Neumann

  

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Neumann

Definition: Neumann

Neumann

Noun

1. United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Neumann" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Synonym: Neumann

Synonym: von Neumann (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Neumann

English words defined with "Neumann": John von NeumannOtto Neumann Sverdrupvon Neumann, von Neumann machine. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Neumann": Church integerElectronic Numerical Integrator and Computerfetch-execute cycle, FFP, Fifth Generation Computer System, FPGeary's contiguity ratioNeumann lamellae, NON-VON computerUBASICvon Neumann integer, von Neumann ordinal, von Neumann spike, von Neumann, JohnWafe. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Neumann" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

German (Neumann).

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Modern Usage: Neumann

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ein Dreifach Hoch dem Sanitätsgefreiten Neumann (1969)

Die Neuen Abenteuer des Sanitätsgefreiten Neumann (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Neumann

DomainTitle

Books

  • Prisoner's Dilemma/John Von Neumann, Game Theory and the Puzzle of the Bomb (reference)

  • Actions of Discrete Amenable Groups on Von Neumann Algebras (Lecture Notes in Mathematics) (reference)

  • A Light Shone in the Darkness: The Story of the Stigmatist and Mystic Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth (reference)

  • Kabarettist an der Front des Kalten Krieges : Günter Neumann und das politische Kabarett in der Programmgestaltung des Radios im Amerikanischen Sektor Berlins (RIAS) (reference)

  • Sincerely, Scott Neumann (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Neumann

Illustrations:
Neumann

More images...

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Photo Album: Neumann

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Isidor Neumann.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Edw. Neumann, Broadway Market, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Neumann

"Neumann" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neumann" is used about 86 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%8635,638

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Neumann

The following table summarizes the usage of "Neumann" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NeumannLast name5,0002,639
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Neumann

Expressions using "Neumann": John von Neumann Otto Neumann Sverdrup von Neumann von Neumann integer von Neumann machine von Neumann ordinal. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Neumann": Buber-neumann.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Neumann

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nicole neumann

184

neumann

98

home neumann

97

neumann college

97

john von neumann

47

st john neumann

28

von neumann

25

geraldine neumann

22

neumann microphone

20

neumann gloves

11

neumann u87

10

therese neumann

10

neumann football gloves

8

balthasar neumann

8

john neumann

7

liselotte neumann

7

neumann u47

7

saint john neumann

6

jutta neumann

6

camp neumann

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Neumann

Language Translations for "Neumann"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

neumann. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ノーベル平å'Œè³ž (no mark, no more, no work no pay, NOAA, Nobel peace prize, noise, noise reduction, noiseless, noisiness, noisy, noisy minority, no-paper society, normal, normal tape, normalize, no-run stockings). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ノイマン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eumannnay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Neumann

Misspellings

"Neumann" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enzmann, Keamanan, Keumann, Naiman, naumanni, neeman, Neemrana, Neman, Nequam, Netman, Neuman, Neumanns, Nieman, Niemann, Nijman, Niuean, noumenon, Nyoman, Reumann. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Neumann

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-n-n-u"

-2 letters: numen, unman.

-3 letters: amen, mane, maun, mean, menu, name, nema, neum.

-4 letters: amu, ane, eau, emu, mae, man, men, mun, nae, nam, nan, nun.

-5 letters: ae, am, an, em, en, ma, me, mu, na, ne, nu, um, un.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-n-n-u"
 

+1 letter: unmanned.

 

+2 letters: annulment, mannequin, unmeaning.

 

+3 letters: annulments, mannequins, unmannered, unmannerly.

 

+4 letters: inhumanness, mundaneness, nonargument, undemanding, undermanned, unmanliness.

 

+5 letters: announcement, nonarguments, nonnumerical, unmanneredly, unornamented.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Neumann


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 75 6D 61 6E 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .    ..-    --    .-    -.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#117 &#109 &#97 &#110 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0075 006D 0061 006E 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48718779678080

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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