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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Acronym and abbrev. for yttrium-aluminum garnet. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
YAG | English | Yttrium aluminium garnet | Industry |
| Nd YAG | English | Neodimium-doped Yttrium-aluminium garnet laser | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: YAG |
| Non-English Usage: "YAG" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Papiamen (chase, hunt). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yag (1996) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In a technique called YAG laser capsulotomy, your doctor uses a laser beam to make a tiny hole in the lens to let light pass through. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "YAG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "YAG" is used about 4 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 (singular) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "YAG": YAG-crystal. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "YAG"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | yttrium-aluminium laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser), yttrium-aluminium granatrød laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser), YAG-laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Nd:YAG-laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | laserNd:YAG (neodymium YAG laser), laser Nd:YAG (neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Neodym-Granat-Laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λέιζερ Nδ:YAG (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | laser a Nd:YAG (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yagay laser Nd:YAG (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) láser Nd-YAG (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) Neodymium-YAG-laser (Nd:YAG laser, neodymium YAG laser). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YAG": yager, yagers, yagi, yagis. (additional references) | |
Words containing "YAG": buoyage, buoyages, drayage, drayages, quayage, quayages, satyagraha, satyagrahas, voyage, voyaged, voyager, voyagers, voyages, voyageur, voyageurs, voyaging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gay. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-y" | |
-1 letter: ag, ay, ya. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-y" | |
+1 letter: agly, cagy, gaby, gamy, gapy, gays, gray, sagy, yagi, yang, yoga, yuga. | |
+2 letters: agley, agony, angry, baggy, cadgy, cagey, faggy, gabby, gaily, gally, gamay, gamey, gammy, gappy, gassy, gaudy, gauzy, gawky, gawsy, gayal, gayer, gayly, glady, glary, glazy, grapy, gravy, grays, gyral, hoagy, jaggy, mangy, naggy, raggy, rangy, saggy, stagy, tangy, yager, yagis, yangs, yogas, yugas. | |
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