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ACID-FREE

Specialty Definition: ACID-FREE

DomainDefinition

Archeological

"A material that has a pH of 7.0 or higher (an alkaline), since acids can weaken cellulose in paper, cloth, and board and lead to embrittlement" (Griset and Kodack 1999:155). (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: ACID-FREE

"ACID-FREE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ACID-FREE" is used about 15 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
Adjective (general or positive)100%1590,616

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

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Modern Translation: ACID-FREE

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

German

  

säurefrei. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

acid-freeay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ACID-FREE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-r"

-1 letter: deciare, defacer, refaced.

-2 letters: aeried, caried, deafer, dearie, decare, deface, defier, deicer, faerie, faired, farced, farcie, feared, feriae, fiacre, fierce, rediae, reface.

-3 letters: acred, acrid, aerie, afire, aider, aired, arced, areic, cadre, caird, cared, cedar, ceder, cered, ceria, cider, creed, cried, daric, deair, decaf, defer, deice, dicer, eared, eider, erica, faced, facer, fader.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-f-i-r"
 

+1 letter: friedcake.

 

+2 letters: federacies, fireplaced, forecaddie, fricasseed, friedcakes, interfaced, refinanced, repacified.

 

+3 letters: forecaddies, preachified, prefinanced, vociferated.

 

+4 letters: certificated, enfranchised, ferricyanide, ferrocyanide, handkerchief, reclassified.

 

+5 letters: confederacies, confederating, confederation, confederative, ferricyanides, ferrocyanides, handkerchiefs, prefabricated, presanctified, underfinanced.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage Frequency
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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