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| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | A variety of sapphire, not perfectly transparent, but showing a starlike opalescence in the direction of the axis of the crystal if cut round. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | Any gemstone that, when cut en cabochon in the correct crystallographic direction, displays a rayed figure (a star) by either reflected or transmitted light; e.g., star sapphire. Syn:star stoneSee also:star sapphire. (references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Asteria."
Crosswords: ASTERIA |
| Specialty definitions using "ASTERIA": Danaides ♦ epiasterism. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Asteria sto vourko tis akolasias (1969) Kato apo ta asteria (2001) Asteria apo homa (1983) | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
asteria | 19 |
asteria multimedia | 16 |
asteria belek club | 5 |
asteria belek club hv1 | 2 |
asteria company | 2 |
asteria club | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ASTERIA": asterias, asteriated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aristae, atresia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: airest, arista, reatas, riatas, satire, striae, tarsia, terais, tiaras. | |
-2 letters: airts, areas, arias, arise, aster, astir, atria, irate, raias, raise, rates, reata, retia, riata, rites, serai, sitar, stair, stare, stria, tares, tarsi, tears, terai, tiara, tiers, tires, tries. | |
-3 letters: airs, airt, aits, area, ares, aria, arse, arts, asea, ates, ears, east, eats, eras. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-i-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: airdates, amirates, antisera, ariettas, aristate, aspirate, asterias, atresias, awaiters, dataries, hetairas, parasite, radiates, ratanies, seatrain, septaria, variates. | |
+2 letters: abstainer, acierates, actuaries, aerations, aerialist, airstream, animaters, artemisia, arterials, ascertain, aspiratae, aspirated, aspirates, ataraxies, atrazines, attainers, aubretias, aubrietas, autarkies, bacterias, caritases, craniates, disparate, dramatise, eradiates, estuarial, hatterias, karateist, marcasite, marinates, materials, metatarsi, parakites, parasites, parietals, psalteria, radicates, reattains, rhatanies, satrapies, seatrains, sectarian, spermatia, staircase, tailraces, tearstain, theriacas, varietals, veratrias, vicarates, zaratites. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 53 54 45 52 49 41 |
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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)01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A S T E R I A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0053 0054 0045 0052 0049 0041 |
| 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)35535439524335 |
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