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X-WINDOWS

Specialty Definition: X-WINDOWS

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Computing

X-Windows A common misnomer for the X Window System. (1997-06-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

Standard graphical interface for personal computers and terminals. Refers to a windowing system for graphics workstations that was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with participation from Digital Equipment Corporation and BM. (references)

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

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Crosswords: X-WINDOWS

Specialty definitions using "X-WINDOWS": Windows 2000. (references)

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Commercial Usage: X-WINDOWS

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Books

  • 10 Minute Guide to Netscape for X-Windows (10 Minute Guide Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: X-WINDOWS

"X-WINDOWS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.38% of the time. "X-WINDOWS" is used about 105 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)92.38%9733,269
Noun (plural)7.62%8124,375
                    Total100.00%105N/A

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

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Expressions: X-WINDOWS

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "X-WINDOWS": X-windows-based, X-windows-for-pc, x-windows-under-microsoft.

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

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Anagrams: X-WINDOWS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-n-o-s-w-w-x"

-1 letter: windows.

-2 letters: disown, indows, widows, window.

-3 letters: downs, indow, oxids, widow, winds, winos.

-4 letters: dins, dons, down, dows, ions, nodi, nods, nows, owns, oxid, snow, sown, wind, wino, wins, wons, wows.

-5 letters: din, dis, don, dos, dow, ids, ins, ion, nix, nod, nos, now, ods, ons, own, sin, six, sod, son, sow, sox, win, wis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: X-WINDOWS


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

58 2D 57 49 4E 44 4F 57 53

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

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

01011000 00101101 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000100 01001111 01010111 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#88 &#45 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#79 &#87 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0058 002D 0057 0049 004E 0044 004F 0057 0053

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

581557434838495753

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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