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Definition: Close-packed |
Close-packedAdjective1. Packed especially tightly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "close-packed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Crosswords: Close-packed |
| Specialty definitions using "close-packed": bismuth telluride ♦ dilatancy ♦ precious opal. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Close-packed" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (dichtgepackt). |
| "Close-packed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Close-packed" is used about 14 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "close-packed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 关闭包装. (various references) | |
French | le solide est un empilement compact d'atomes arrangés suivant un motif reproductible longue distance, caractéristique du réseau cristallin (a solid is a close-packed arrangement of atoms). (various references) | |
German | dichtgepackt. (various references) | |
Greek | το στερεό είναι μια κανονική συμπαγής διάταξη ατόμων η οποία επαναλαμβάνεται σε κανονική απόσταση και η οποία χαρακτηρίζει το κρυσταλλικό (a solid is a close-packed arrangement of atoms). (various references) | |
Italian | un solido è una disposizione ordinata e compatta di atomi che si ripete a distanze regolari, caratteristica del reticolo cristallino (a solid is a close-packed arrangement of atoms, the pattern of which is repeated over a long distance and which characterizes the crystal lattice). (various references) | |
Korean | 닫 포장하". (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ose-packedclay.(various references) | |
Scottish | sùmhail (peaceable, tame, tidily tied up). (various references) | |
Spanish | el sólido es una disposición ordenada y compacta de átomos que se repite a distancias regulares, características de la red cristalina (a solid is a close-packed arrangement of atoms, the pattern of which is repeated over a long distance and which characterizes the crystal lattice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-k-l-o-p-s" | |
-2 letters: coalesced, escaloped, opalesced, peacocked. | |
-3 letters: coalesce, cockades, opalesce, padlocks, peacocks, peasecod, pedocals, spackled, speckled. | |
-4 letters: accedes, cackled, cackles, clacked, clasped, cloaked, clocked, cockade, cockled, cockles, coleads, copecks, deckels, deckles, deposal, elapsed, elodeas, escalop, escaped, padlock, peacock, peascod, pedalos, pedocal, pleased, polkaed, scalped, seacock, sepaled, skelped, skoaled, slacked, solaced, spackle, specced, specked, speckle. | |
-5 letters: accede. | |
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