Tertiary Period

  

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Tertiary Period

Definition: Tertiary Period

Tertiary Period

Noun

1. From 2 million to 63 million years ago.

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



Specialty Definitions: Tertiary Period

DomainDefinitions

Geological

The earliest Period of the Cenozoic Era, beginning about 66.4 million years ago and ending 1.6 million years ago. (references)

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Synonym: Tertiary Period

Synonym: tertiary (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tertiary Period

English words defined with "Tertiary period": 4thAlabama periodFaluns, fourthnummulitequaternarySubapennine. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tertiary Period

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

tertiary period

30
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Modern Translations: Tertiary Period

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

Greek 

  

τριτογενήσ περίοδοσ. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

第三紀 (the Tertiary period). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いさ"き (the Tertiary period). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ertiarytay eriodpay

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Anagrams: Tertiary Period

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-i-o-p-r-r-r-t-t-y"

-4 letters: peridotite.

-5 letters: apriority, irritated, perorated, portrayed, portrayer, predatory, repertory, territory, torpidity, torridity.

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Alternative Orthography: Tertiary Period


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

54 65 72 74 69 61 72 79      50 65 72 69 6F 64

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

    

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

01010100 01100101 01110010 01110100 01101001 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101111 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#114 &#116 &#105 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#111 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0072 0074 0069 0061 0072 0079      0050 0065 0072 0069 006F 0064

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

54718486756784912507184758170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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