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HYPER-

Definition: HYPER-

HYPER-

1. A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-.

2. A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Hyper- \Hy"per-\ [from Greek expression "ype`r over, above; akin to Latin super, English over. See Over, and compare to Super-.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: HYPER-

DomainDefinition

Mining

A prefix from the Greek meaning over, above, or abnormally great. (references)

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

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Crosswords: HYPER-

Etymologies containing "HYPER-": Super-. (references)
Non-English Usage: "HYPER-" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (hyper-, ultra), Swedish (hyper-, ultra-).

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Commercial Usage: HYPER-

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hepatic metabolism of ethanol and sorbitol in hypo-, hyper- and euthyroid rats (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: HYPER-

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Many of their restaurants are located in the parking lots of hyper- and supermarkets owned by the GIB group. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HYPER-

Language Translations for "HYPER-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tepër-, tej- (dia-, over-, super-, supra-, trans-), mbi- (over-, super-, supra-). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свръх- (over-, super-, sur-, ultra-), хипер-. (various references)

   

Czech

  

hyper- (ultra), nad (above, beyond, in excess of, outside, over, past, upon). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

υπέρ-. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hiper-. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(super-, ultra-). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ちょう (billion, block, bowels, butterfly, cake, condoling with, frivolity, government office, guts, indication, intestines, leaf, mourning, omen, pitch, portent, sign, super-, tempo, time, tone, trillion, ultra-). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yper-hay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

сверх- (extra-, super-, ultra-). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

hiper-, preko-, nad-, iznad-. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hiper-. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hyper- (ultra-), över- (over, over-, super-, supra-, top, ultra-). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hiper, yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, Clarion, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior, tall), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), üstün (above, ascendant, ascendent, atop, atop of, choice, distingue, excellent, extra, golden, high, over, predominant, pre-eminencent, preponderant, super, super-, super-duty, superior, supra-, transcendent, unsurpassed, up), çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

гіпер-, над- (extra-, over-, super-, supra-). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HYPER-

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hyper.

Words within the letters "e-h-p-r-y"

-1 letter: hype, prey, pyre.

-2 letters: hep, her, hey, hyp, peh, per, pry, pye, rep, rye, yeh, yep.

-3 letters: eh, er, he, pe, re, ye.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-p-r-y"
 

+1 letter: cypher, sphery, sypher, zephyr.

 

+2 letters: cyphers, eparchy, hyperon, orphrey, phrensy, preachy, prythee, syphers, therapy, zephyrs.

 

+3 letters: coryphee, cyphered, euphrasy, eutrophy, hypergol, hyperons, hyperope, hypoderm, orphreys, orthoepy, overhype, prophecy, prophesy, pyorrhea, syphered, whispery.

 

+4 letters: archetype, bryophyte, champerty, coryphaei, coryphees, cyphering, epigraphy, eriophyid, geography, gynophore, heptarchy, horseplay, hydropses, hyperacid, hyperarid, hyperbola, hyperbole, hypercube, hyperemia, hyperemic, hyperfine, hypergamy, hypergols, hyperlink, hyperopes, hyperopia, hyperopic, hyperpnea, hyperpure, hypertext, hypocrite, hypoderms, overhyped, overhypes, pachyderm, pentarchy, perilymph, periphery, pharynges, pharynxes, polyhedra, preachify, preachily, prettyish, pyorrheas, pyrethrin, pyrethrum, superhype, syphering, xerophily, xerophyte.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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