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Alnico

Definition: Alnico

Alnico

Noun

1. Trade name for an alloy used to make high-energy permanent magnets; contains aluminum and iron and nickel plus cobalt or copper or titanium.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Alnico

DomainDefinitions

Electrical Engineering

An alloy used for permanent magnets usually made up of nickel 18%, aluminium 10%, cobalt 12%, copper 6%, and iron 54%. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Alnico

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

Alnico

EnglishAlloyed Nickel CobaltN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: Alnico

Specialty definitions using "Alnico": magnetic alloys. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Alnico

DomainTitle

Consumer Goods

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

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Usage Frequency: Alnico

"Alnico" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alnico" is used about 2 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
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

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

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Expression: Alnico

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Alnico": Alnico-v.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alnico

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  alnico

50

  alnico magnet

38

  alnico speaker

4

  alnico magna permanent rail

4

  alnico scrap

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Alnico

Language Translations for "Alnico"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

"镍'合金. (various references)

   

Danish

  

alnico. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

alnico. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alnico-lejeerinki. (various references)

   

German

  

AlNiCO. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

alnico. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alnicoay

   

Spanish

  

alnico. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

alnicolegering. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Alnico

Derivations

Words beginning with "Alnico": alnicoes, alnicos. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Alnico" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alnica, alnino, alric, anic, Aonack, etnicko, Falaniko. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Alnico

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oilcan.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o"

-1 letter: aloin, colin, linac, nicol.

-2 letters: anil, cain, calo, ciao, cion, clan, clon, coal, coil, coin, cola, coni, icon, laic, lain, lino, lion, loan, loca, loci, loin, nail, naoi, noil.

-3 letters: ail, ain, ani, can, col, con, ion, lac, lin, nil, oca, oil.

-4 letters: ai, al, an, in, la, li, lo, na, no, on.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-n-o"
 

+1 letter: acyloin, alnicos, cannoli, clarion, coalbin, coaling, conical, folacin, inocula, laconic, limacon, nodical, oilcans.

 

+2 letters: acrolein, acyloins, alnicoes, anabolic, analogic, anticold, antilock, bioclean, cajoling, cannolis, carbinol, carillon, caroling, cilantro, clarions, cloaking, coalbins, coinable, colinear, colonial, complain, conidial, conoidal, contrail, daltonic, diaconal, falchion, folacins, fornical, gnomical, iconical, ironclad, ironical, kaolinic, laconism, lactonic, limacons, locating, location, logician, platonic, scallion, solacing, univocal, unsocial, volcanic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Alnico


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 6C 6E 69 63 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .-..    -.    ..    -.-.    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01101100 01101110 01101001 01100011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#108 &#110 &#105 &#99 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 006C 006E 0069 0063 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

357880756981

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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