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Definitions: Efflorescence |
EfflorescenceNoun1. The period of greatest prosperity or productivity. 2. Any red eruption of the skin. 3. The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. 4. A powdery deposit on a surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "efflorescence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Etymology: Efflorescence \Ef`flo*res"cence\, noun. [French expression efflorescence.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Archeological | The outward migration and precipitation of salts on the surface from within a porous material. (references) |
Building | White powder that forms on the surface of brick. (references) |
Chemical Industry | The incrustation of soluble salts, deposited on a surface; it is usually caused by leaching of salts or free alkalies. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A whitish fluffy or crystalline powder, produced as a surface encrustation on a rock or soil in an arid region by evaporation of water brought to the surface by capillary action or by loss of water of crystallization on exposure to the air. It may consist of one or several minerals, commonly soluble salts such as gypsum, calcite, natron, and halite. Syn:bloom b. The process by which an efflorescent salt or crust is forme. (references) |
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Synonyms: EfflorescenceSynonyms: anthesis (n), bloom (n), blossom (n), blossoming (n), florescence (n), flower (n), flowering (n), flush (n), heyday (n), inflorescence (n), peak (n), prime (n), rash (n), roseola (n), skin rash (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulverulence | Noun: powderiness, pulverulence; sandiness. Adjective: efflorescence; friability. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Efflorescence |
| English words defined with "efflorescence": Efflorescency, Exanthesis ♦ Mannite, Mountain meal ♦ Nitromagnesite ♦ Rock meal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "efflorescence": sly bed, soda lakes, soda prairie ♦ vinney. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Efflorescence" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (efflorescence). |
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| "Efflorescence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Efflorescence" is used about 7 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 (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 |
efflorescence | 67 |
efflorescence remover | 4 |
concrete efflorescence | 3 |
efflorescence cleaner | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "efflorescence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | myket (Mold, mould), lulnajë, lulëzim (bloom, blooming, blossoming, blow, blowing, exfoliation, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, heyday, inflorescence, meridian, pride, prime, prosperity, thrift). (various references) | |
Arabic | نشوء (development, emergence, evolution, germination, upgrowth), إزهار (bloom, blossom, flowering). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разцъфтяване (blowing), обрив (exanthema, rash), ефлоресценция, изветряване (volatilization). (various references) | |
Chinese | 花状 (Efflorescent). (various references) | |
Czech | doba kvìtu. (various references) | |
Danish | udblomstring (blooming, scumming). (various references) | |
Dutch | efflorescentie (scumming). (various references) | |
Farsi | شکفتگی , شکوفاءی , شوره زنی . (various references) | |
Finnish | suolan läpilyönti, ruostekukinta (scumming). (various references) | |
French | efflorescence. (various references) | |
German | Effloreszenz, Effloreszens, Morphe, Hautblüte, blüte (abloom, bloom, blossom, blossom-time, dud, florescence, flower, flowering, flowering period, phoney, phony, prosperity, rash, time), Ausblühung (scumming), Ausblühen (blooming). (various references) | |
Greek | χνοασμόσ, εξάνθιση (scumming), εξάνθηση (bloom, blooming, inflorescence), άνθηση (bloom, blossom-time, fleur, florescence, flowering period, flowers of wine, inflorescence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | virágba borulás, kivirágzás. (various references) | |
Italian | efflorescenza (bloom, blooming, dimming, laitance, scumming, slurry, stain), fioritura (abloom, bloom, bloominE, blooming, blossom, blossoming, blossom-time, florescence, flourish, flower, flowering, flowering period, inflorescence, spangle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 風解 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふうかい. (various references) | |
Korean | '해. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efflorescenceay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | eflorescer, eflorescência (bloom, blooming, blushing, dimming, effluence, scumming, stain). (various references) | |
Romanian | eflorescenţã, înflorire (blow, florescence, flourishing, flower, flowering, inflorescence, may, noon, noonday, noontide, pride, prime, prosperity, summer). (various references) | |
Russian | эффлоресценция, кожная сыпь (exanthema, rash), высыпь, выцветать (fade), выветриваться. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | procvetavanje, ospa na koži. (various references) | |
Spanish | eflorescencia (bloom, bloominE, blooming, blushing, flowering, scumming). (various references) | |
Swedish | saltutslag (scumming), blomning (blooming, blossom, flower, flowering, inflorescence). (various references) | |
Thai | การเปลี่ยนเป็นผลึกหรือเป็นผงเมื่อสูญเสียน้ำ (ทางเคมี), การออก"อก. (various references) | |
Turkish | tozlaşma (pollination), gelişip olgunlaşma, derinin kızarması, çiçek açma (bloom, florescence, flower). (various references) | |
Ukranian | розквіт (blossom, blow, blowing, florescence, heyday, noon, noonday, noontide, pride, prime, well being, zenith), квітнення, висипка, вицвітання. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "efflorescence": efflorescences. (additional references) | |
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"Efflorescence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: efflorescens, eflorescence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "efflorescence" (pronounced 'Ef`flo*res"cence'): Accrescence, Acquiescence, Adolescence, Albescence, Arborescence, Calescence, Calorescence, Candescence, Circumjacence, Coalescence, Cognoscence, Concrescence, Crescence, Decence, Dehiscence, Deliquescence, Delitescence, Detumescence, Emollescence, Evanescence, Exacerbescence, Excandescence, Excrescence, Extumescence, Fatiscence, florescence, Frondescence, Fructescence, Hyalescence, incalescence, incandescence, Incoalescence, Indecence, Indehiscence, Ineffervescence, inflorescence, intumescence, Inturgescence, Invalescence, iridescence, juvenescence, Lactescence, Lapidescence, Latescence, luminescence, Nonacquiescence, Obmutescence, Obsolescence, Opalescence, Petrescence, Phosphorescence, Pubescence, Putrescence, Ramollescence, Reflorescence, Rejuvenescence, reminiscence, renascence, Resipiscence, Revalescence, Revirescence, Rubescence, senescence, Spinescence, Spumescence, Supercrescence, Superexcrescence, Thermoluminescence, Torpescence, tumescence, Virescence, Viridescence, Vitrescence. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-f-f-l-n-o-r-s" | |
-2 letters: florescence. | |
-3 letters: effloresce. | |
-4 letters: conferees, florences, forefeels, offscreen. | |
-5 letters: conferee, encloser, enforces, ensorcel, fleecers, florence, forefeel, foreseen, offences, refences. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-f-f-l-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: efflorescences. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 66 66 6C 6F 72 65 73 63 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. .-.. --- .-. . ... -.-. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100110 01100110 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E f f l o r e s c e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0066 0066 006C 006F 0072 0065 0073 0063 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39727278818471856971806971 |
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