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Definition: Agassiz |
AgassizNoun1. United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Agassiz" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
Synonyms: AgassizSynonyms: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (n), Louis Agassiz (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Agassiz |
| English words defined with "Agassiz": Ctenoidei, Cycloidei ♦ Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ♦ Louis Agassiz. (references) |
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 | Charles D. Sigsbee Commanded the Coast Survey Steamer BLAKE Invented Sigsbee Sounding Machine With Alexander Agassiz was first to use steel cable for deepsea oceanography Known for commanding the MAINE when sunk at Havana.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Steam winch with steel wire Steel wire for deepsea dredging was first used on the BLAKE The result of collaboration between Charles D. Sigsbee and Alexander Agassiz First use of steel wire for dredging, first deep ocean anchoring Agassiz transferred steel cable mining technology to oceanography.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | "Honolulu and Its Fringing Reef", Plate VI. In: "Coral Reefs of the Hawaiian Islands" by Alexander Agassiz. April 1889. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College. Vol. XVII. No. 3. Library Call Number G161 A26.Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | "Eastern Side of the Entrance to Honolulu Harbor", Plate VII. In: "Coral Reefs of the Hawaiian Islands" by Alexander Agassiz. April 1889. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Harvard College. Vol. XVII. No. 3. Library Call Number G161 A26.Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Figures 1 and 2, Oculina robusta Pourtales. Figures 3 and 4, Oculina varicosa Leseuer. Figures 5-7, Astrocoenia pectinata Pourtales. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate II. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Figs.1 and 2, Agaricia agaricites Milne-Edw. and Haime. Fig. 3, cirrhiped covered with coral. Figs. 4-6, Porites clavaria Lamarck. Fig. 7, Porites furcata Lamarck. Figures 9-12, Astrangia solitaria Verrill. Figs. 13-15, Colangia immersa Pourtales. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Mem. of Museum of Comp. Zoo. at Harvard, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XII.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Text accompanying Plate I. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate I. NOAA Central Library Call No. QE565.A263 1880 These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs.Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Plate 32. The forward side of the dredge reel and its engine. The reel having on it 2700 fathoms of the steel rope recommended by Professor Alexander Agassiz. In: "Deep-sea Sounding and Dredging" by Charles D. Sigsbee, 1880. Library Call Number GC75.S53 1880.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | A bottom sediment map. Published in "Three Cruises of the Blake", Alexander Agassiz, 1888. P. 286. The majority of the sediment samples in this map were obtained as the result of Coast Survey expeditions between the 1840's and 1880's. Library Call Number QH93.A26 1888 v.1.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 22. The BLAKE shock absorber. This device also used the principle of the elasticity of rubber to absorb the shocks incurred on a cable or line when launching or retrieving heavy objects at sea. This device was first used in the winter of 1878-1879 on the Coast and Geodetic Ship BLAKE while under the scientific direction of Alexander Agassiz.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Louis Agassiz | Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. |
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| "Agassiz" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agassiz" is used about 22 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% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Agassiz": Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ♦ Louis Agassiz. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
agassiz canada | 27 |
agassiz | 24 |
louis agassiz | 9 |
agassiz bc | 7 |
agassiz village | 6 |
agassiz lake | 6 |
alexander agassiz | 4 |
agassiz credit union | 4 |
agassiz british columbia | 3 |
agassiz fuertes louis | 3 |
agassiz realty | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-s-s-z" | |
-1 letter: saigas. | |
-2 letters: assai, sagas, saiga. | |
-3 letters: agas, saga, sags, zags, zigs. | |
-4 letters: aas, aga, ais, ass, gas, sag, sis, zag, zig. | |
-5 letters: aa, ag, ai, as, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-s-s-z" | |
+4 letters: magazinists, stargazings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 67 61 73 73 69 7A |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- --. .- ... ... .. --.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100111 01100001 01110011 01110011 01101001 01111010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A g a s s i z |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0067 0061 0073 0073 0069 007A |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35736785857592 |
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