THERMOTENSION

  

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THERMOTENSION

Definition: THERMOTENSION

THERMOTENSION

Noun

1. A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Thermotension \Ther`mo*ten"sion\, noun. [Thermo- tension.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "THERMOTENSION"

Words rhyming with "THERMOTENSION" (pronounced 'Ther`mo*ten"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references)

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Anagrams: THERMOTENSION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-t"

-2 letters: tonometries.

-3 letters: interments, mentioners, minestrone, monotheist, moonshiner, nethermost, retentions, rhinestone, stenotherm, tenotomies, theonomies, threonines, tonometers.

-4 letters: enthrones, hermetist, hornstone, horsemint, innermost, interment, intermesh, intermont, inthrones, ironstone, mentioner, moistener, monoester, monotints, monteiths, moonshine, motioners, nonheroes, nontheist, noontimes, ointments, remoisten, remotions, retention, roomettes, rotenones, sentiment, serotonin, tenorites, tensioner, thereinto, theremins, thermions, thermites, thermoset, thirteens, thorniest.

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

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Alternative Orthography: THERMOTENSION


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

54 48 45 52 4D 4F 54 45 4E 53 49 4F 4E

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)

01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001101 01001111 01010100 01000101 01001110 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#77 &#79 &#84 &#69 &#78 &#83 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0045 0052 004D 004F 0054 0045 004E 0053 0049 004F 004E

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

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

54423952474954394853434948

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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