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Definition: 51 |
51Adjective1. Being one more than fifty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: 51Synonyms: fifty-one (adj), li (adj). (additional references) |
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Decades: 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s - 50s - 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s
Years: 46 47 48 49 50 - 51 - 52 53 54 55 56
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Crosswords: 51 |
| Specialty definitions using "51": Chromium Radioisotopes ♦ Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein ♦ Hare-stone, HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase ♦ Iconium, Immunoglobulins, gamma-Chain, ion pair ♦ LAER, Landiere ♦ Optical Carrier 12, Optical Carrier 3, Optical Carrier 48, Optical Carrier n ♦ PSD increments ♦ Simon Magus, Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, synchronous optical network ♦ Uncircumcised in Heart and Ears ♦ visibility impairment. (references) |
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Screenplays | 51 people? (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imágenes del deporte Nº 51 (1973) Eye Witness No. 51 (1953) § 51 StGB (1915) Return to Area 51 (2002) 51 raisons (1996) | |
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![]() | Point Ano Nuevo and Ano Nuevo Island as seen from offshore. This is about 20 miles north of Santa Cruz, California. In: Pacific Coast. Coast Pilot of California, Oregon, and Washington Territory . By George Davidson, 1869. P. 51. Library Call Number VK947.D4 1869. Credit: America's Coastlines. | ![]() | "The great ice barrier - looking east from Cape Crozier." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume I. Page 51. Watercolor by Edward A. Wilson. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Triangulation station NYGREN 1949 - 70 08 51.83200(N) 146 11 24.40800(W). Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | "The Discovery on the rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound." Latitude 51 02 N, Longitude 127 35 W. In: "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World" by Captain George Vancouver. Volume I, Plate VI, page 364. Library Call Number G420 .V22 1798. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
![]() | In: "Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie ....." by the French ships ASTROLABE and ZELEE under the command of Dumont D'Urville. Plate 51. Les corvettes au mouillage de Nouka-Hiva. Baie Anna Maria. Library Call Number Q115 .D9 1842. Credit: Treasures of the Library. | ![]() | Plate XIV. 49. Bathytroctes antillarum, Goode and Bean. From ALBATROSS, N. Lat . 28 38, W. Long. 87 02, 420 fathoms. 50. Bathytroctes aequatoris, Goode and Be an. From ALBATROSS, N. Lat. 01 03, W. Long. 80 15, 741 fathoms. 51. Aleposomus Copei, Gill. From ALBATROSS, N. Lat. 37 12, W. Long. 69 39, 2949 fathoms. 52. Pterothrissus gissu, Hilgendorf. From Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. 22. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Plate XX. 74. Bathypterois dubius, Vaillant. From Vaillant, "Exped. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman. 75. Bathypterois quadrifilis, Gunther. From BLAKE collected off St. Vincent. 76. Bathypterois longipes, Gunther. From ALBATROSS at N. Lat. 36 05, W. Lon. 69 51, in 2512 fathoms. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | ALUMINAUT, 51 ft. long, five person sub, more submarine than submersible. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | Figure 51 (cont.) The HIRONDELLE II sounding machine used by Prince Albert I of Monaco. During the evolution of this machine, two important changes were made on the PRINCESS ALICE II which were used on this machine. The power was provide d by an electric motor, and the cable passed first through a winch before being wound on the reel. This machine kept the winch but returned to steam power. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Figure 51. Knudsen bottle for sampling water while a ship is underway. A newer revised model built after the model in Figure 50. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The same shall apply to the rights of the Empire with regard to railway and tramway concessions within the territories referred to in Article 51. (reference) |
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Health | In a recent survey of 107 rural Iowa caregivers, only 51 percent reported using any community-based services. (references) | |
In 1997 the Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer reviewed information collected on more than 53,000 postmenopausal women during 51 studies in 21 countries, representing about 90 percent of the data on this subject. (references) | ||
Business | The remaining 51 percent must be held by UAE nationals. (references) | |
Those in which U.S. firms hold a significant share account for 51.5 percent. (references) | ||
New ventures with 51 percent foreign equity participation are now permissible. (references) | ||
Children | Ecuador | Only 51 percent of teenagers attend school. (references) |
Maldives | Of the students enrolled, 49 percent are female and 51 percent are male. (references) | |
Brazil | Girls and boys attend school in roughly comparable numbers; current elementary enrolment is 51 percent boys, 49 percent girls. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Namibia | The ruling SWAPO party owns 51 percent of this cable service. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Radio Nostalgie is 51 percent owned by Radio Nostalgie France, but it is considered a local radio station. (references) | |
Fiji | A trust operating on behalf of the provincial governments owns 51 percent of Fiji One; the other 49 percent is owned by private individuals and interests. (references) | |
Economic History | Uae | UAE has 51 hospitals with 6,996 beds. (references) |
Nepal | To date, the Commission has investigated 51 complaints. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Area: 51,233 sq. km, slightly smaller than West Virginia. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | In them were located 114 remains, of which 51 were men's, 28 were women's, and 35 were children's. (references) |
Mexico | Of these 51 were serving their sentences, and 6 had their sentences overturned in November based on lack of evidence and were released. (references) | |
Brazil | Between October 2000 and March, the inspector general of the police in the State of Rio de Janeiro received 51 complaints of police involvement in death squad killings. (references) | |
Political Economy | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Other businesses must be at least 51 percent owned by nationals. (references) |
Uruguay | To win, a presidential candidate must obtain a minimum of 51 percent of the votes cast. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | Of these fees, 51 percent are paid into a fund dedicated to social and cultural projects. (references) | |
Political Rights | Central African Republic | Two weeks after the voting, the Constitutional Court announced the official results of the election and declared President Patasse reelected with 51.6 percent of the votes cast. (references) |
Suriname | The Constitution stipulates that power and authority rest with the citizens and provides for the right to change the government through the direct election by secret ballot of a National Assembly of 51 members every 5 years. (references) | |
Trade | Chad | Automobiles carry an excise tax of 51 percent. (references) |
Travel | Saudi Arabia | Saudi law requires that Saudi nationals make up 75 percent of a company's work force and 51 percent of its payroll in all businesses, unless an exemption has been obtained from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. (references) |
Women | Japan | Women make up 40 percent of the labor force, and women between the ages of 15 and 64 have a labor force participation rate of 51 percent. (references) |
Austria | At year's end, there were a total of 147 women--out of a standing force of approximately 51,000--serving in the military, including 7 officers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guinea | In late July, authorities arrested 51 Nigerians in Conakry for trafficking in persons. (references) |
India | The additions brought the totals to 13 occupations and 51 processes in which children are prohibited from working under the act. (references) | |
Kenya | In 2000, the last year for which statistics are available, there were 41 strikes involving 17,794 workers and resulting in the loss of 51,171 cumulative days of work. (references) | |
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| "51" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "51" is used about 964 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 |
| Cardinal Number | 100% | 964 | 7,557 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "51": atomic number 51 ♦ BW 284 C 51 ♦ Postbus 51. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "51": Montanide ISA-51. | |
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| 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. |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)35 31 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)00110101 00110001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)5 1 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0035 0031 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)2319 |
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