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Definition: MSB |
MSBNoun1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MSB Most Significant Bit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
MSB | English | Mission Stowage Bag | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: MSBSynonym: mutual savings bank (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: MSB |
| Specialty definitions using "MSB": twos complement. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Trade | Mauritius | A registration certificate issued by the MSB is valid for two years and may be renewed. (references) |
Mauritius | MSB is responsible for certifications, but exporters may use foreign certification bodies if requested by their clients overseas. (references) | |
Mauritius | The objective of the National Quality System Certification Scheme is to recognize companies that meet the requirements of MS ISO 9001, MS ISO 9002, MS ISO 9003, or MS ISO 9004. MSB is also planning to introduce MS ISO 14,000 for companies which put in place a sound environmental management system. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MSB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MSB" 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 (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | MSB International Plc | USA | MSB Financial, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
msb | 180 |
direct msb | 14 |
msb technology | 6 |
book msb | 3 |
msb txdps.state.tx.us | 3 |
dac link msb | 3 |
messenger msb | 2 |
123rd msb | 2 |
college msb | 2 |
earth iniside msb | 2 |
msb shse.ac.in | 2 |
lsb msb | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MSB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 最上位の"ット (most significant bit). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | さいじょういの"ット (most significant bit). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | msbay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "MSB": gemsbok, gemsboks, gemsbuck, gemsbucks. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-m-s" | |
+1 letter: bams, bums, mibs, mobs. | |
+2 letters: abysm, ambos, balms, barms, beams, bemas, berms, besom, bimas, blams, bombs, booms, bosom, brims, bumfs, bumps, combs, dumbs, gambs, iambs, jambs, lambs, limbs, mabes, numbs, samba, sambo, sebum, tombs, umbos, wombs. | |
+3 letters: abamps, abmhos, abohms, abomas, abysms, albums, ambers, ambits, ambles, ambush, amebas, balsam, bedims, begums, bemist, bemuse, bermes, beseem, besmut, besoms, bimahs, bimbos, biomes, blames, blimps, blooms, blumes, bombes, bosoms, bosomy, breams, bromes, bromos, brooms, brumes, bumphs, busman, busmen, chimbs, climbs, combes, combos, coombs, crumbs, cubism, demobs, embars, embays, embeds, embers, embosk, emboss, embows, gambas, gambes, gombos, gumbos, iambus, imbeds, imbues, jambes, jumbos, limbas, limbos, limbus, mambas, mambos, maybes, mbiras, nimbus, obiism, ombers, ombres, plumbs, rhombs, rhumbs, rumbas, sambar, sambas, sambos, sambur, sebums, somber, sombre, subgum, submit, symbol, thumbs, umbels, umbers, umbles, umbras, zombis. | |
| 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)4D 53 42 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01001101 01010011 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M S B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0053 0042 |
| 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)475336 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Names: Company Usage 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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