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DX

Specialty Definition: DX

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

DX was a common telegraphic abbreviation that stood for a signal that travelled a very long distance. It is still used today in the field of radio, but is most frequently used in amateur radio circles.

DX is also a system of document exchange, used widely by British lawyers as a a fast and reliable alternative to the postal system. A DX address will read something like DX 12345 Nottingham.

See also: TX and RX

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DX."

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"DX" is a common misspelling or typo for: ax, do, ox.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: DX

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DX

EnglishD-XyloseN/A

DX

SpanishAdriamicinaMedicine
DX CENTRESEnglishLimiting Factors in III-V Semiconductor Devices due to Donor-Related Deep StatesN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: DX

Specialty definitions using "DX": Intel 486DX, Intel 486SXRapidCADx86 processor socket. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DX

DomainTitle

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

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

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Usage Frequency: DX

"DX" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DX" is used about 61 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
Cardinal Number100%6143,149

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

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Expression: DX

Expressions using "DX": Naldecon DX Adult Liquid [OTC] Naldecon DX Children's Liquid [OTC]. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DX": DX-52-1, DX-8951f.

Ending with "DX": Jcamp-dx.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DX

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dx ball

2,562

awakening dx legend links map zelda

18

adventure dx sonic

833

adventure chao dx sonic

16

dx sonic

340

legend of zelda links awakening dx

16

ball download dx

155

awakening dx legend links through walk zelda

15

adventure cut director dx sonic

129

4dwave dx trident

15

adventure cheat dx sonic

95

tetris dx

14

dx hip hop

92

action adventure code dx replay sonic

13

ball dx game

89

driver dx gx s3 trio64v2

13

honda civic dx

85

dx raiden

12

adventure dx sonic through walk

57

adventure dx movie sonic

12

dx s3 virge

50

driver dx gx s3 virge

12

kodak dx 4330

50

390 dx radio shack

11

dx summit

42

awakening cheat dx legend links zelda

11

spyder electra dx

41

ball dx free game

11

6340 dx kodak

32

honda civic dx hatchback

11

dx recordnow veritas

31

awakening dx links through walk zelda

11

driver dx s3 virge

29

ball download dx game

10

dx cluster

23

crimson death dx

10

dx gx s3 virge

23

dx virge

9

dx s3 trio64v2

20

ball dx play

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "d-x"
 

+1 letter: dex.

 

+2 letters: axed, dexy, doux, doxy, oxid.

 

+3 letters: addax, admix, axled, boxed, codex, coxed, deoxy, desex, detox, dewax, dexes, dexie, dixit, doxie, exude, faxed, fixed, foxed, hexad, hexed, index, loxed, mixed, nixed, oxide, oxids, poxed, radix, raxed, redox, redux, sexed, taxed, vexed, waxed.

 

+4 letters: adieux, admixt, adnexa, axised, axseed, caudex, coaxed, deixis, deluxe, desoxy, dexies, dexter, dextro, dioxan, dioxid, dioxin, diplex, dixits, doxies, duplex, exceed, excide, exedra, exiled, exited, exodoi, exodos, exodus, expand, expend, extend, exuded, exudes, flexed, fluxed, hexade, hexads, hoaxed, ixodid, jinxed, myxoid, oxford, oxides, oxidic, spadix, taxied, toxoid, tuxedo, xyloid.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DX


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

44 58

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01000100 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0058

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

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

3858

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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