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Definitions: Peirce |
PeirceNoun1. United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880). 2. American philosopher and logician; pioneer of pragmatism (1839-1914). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Peirce" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1650. (references) |
Synonyms: PeirceSynonyms: Benjamin Peirce (n), Charles Franklin Peirce (n), Charles Peirce (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Peirce |
| English words defined with "Peirce": Benjamin Peirce ♦ Charles Franklin Peirce, Charles Peirce. (references) |
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 | Triangulation work in Virgin Islands National Park Party off of PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Total station geodimeter used for calibrating ship navigation system Off of NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A fog sampler mounted on the bow of the PEIRCE Fog sampler was designed to capture mist droplets Fog captured would be analyzed for acid content.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Rear Admiral Charles Henry Davis Served on Coast Survey under both Ferdinand Hassler and Alexander Bache Intellectual, helped found National Academy of Sciences Brother-in-law of Benjamin Peirce.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Benjamin Peirce 3rd Superintendent of the Coast Survey Harvard mathematician and astronomer.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Charles Sanders Peirce Great philosopher, scientist, and mathematician Served 30 years with the Coast and Geodetic Survey.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Common Dolphin (Dephinus delphis) cavorting in the bow wave of the NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Friends of the sailor helping make a glorious day better Dolphin playing in the bow wave of the NOAA Ship PEIRCE Ship anchor fluke in lower left of photo.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Seaman from PEIRCE making friends with a newborn harbor seal.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Who says that hydrographers are abnormal? Halloween on the PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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Charles Sanders Peirce | All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite. |
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| "Peirce" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Peirce" is used about 39 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 |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 39 | 55,036 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Peirce" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Peirce | Last name | 1,000 | 10,034 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Peirce": Benjamin Peirce ♦ Charles Franklin Peirce ♦ Charles Peirce. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: piecer, pierce, recipe. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: creep, crepe, cripe, piece, price. | |
-2 letters: cepe, cere, cire, epic, peer, peri, pice, pier, pree, rice, ripe. | |
-3 letters: cee, cep, ere, ice, ire, pec, pee, per, pic, pie, rec, ree, rei, rep, rip. | |
-4 letters: er, pe, pi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: creepie, crepier, epeiric, epicure, peckier, pickeer, piecers, pierced, piercer, pierces, precipe, precise, receipt, recipes, reprice. | |
+2 letters: ciphered, creepier, creepies, creepily, creeping, crepiest, decipher, decrepit, depicter, earpiece, encipher, epicures, epimeric, herpetic, peachier, pedicure, penciler, perceive, pericope, pickeers, pickerel, picketer, piercers, praecipe, precieux, precipes, precised, preciser, precises, precited, premedic, prentice, preprice, preslice, receipts, recopied, recopies, repriced, reprices, resplice, terpenic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 69 72 63 65 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . .. .-. -.-. . |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100101 01101001 01110010 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P e i r c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0065 0069 0072 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)507175846971 |
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