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Definition: ALTERNANT |
ALTERNANTTransitive verb1. Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks. |
Etymology: Alternant \Al*ter"nant\, adjective. [Latin expression alternans, p. pr.: compare to the French expression alternant. See Alternate, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ALTERNANT |
| Non-English Usage: "ALTERNANT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (alternating, rotating), Romanian (alternate, alternating). |
| "ALTERNANT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ALTERNANT" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ALTERNANT": alternant layers. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "ALTERNANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сменящ се, редуващ се (alternating, discontinuous, rotative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | εναλλασόμενοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alternantay alternante. (various references) що чергу"ться (alternating, rotatory), варіант (alternate, draft, variant, version), змінний (alternate, alternating, alternative, removable, variable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"ALTERNANT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Altentann, alternans. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ALTERNANT" (pronounced 'Al*ter"nant'): Benignant, indignant, Nonmalignant, Nonsonant, Oppugnant, Pennant, Pregnant, Preregnant, regnant, repugnant, Restagnant, Self-repugnant, sonant, stagnant, Subalternant, Vernant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-n-n-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: alterant, tarletan. | |
-2 letters: entrant, lantern, tannate, tetanal. | |
-3 letters: anneal, antler, antral, lanate, lanner, latent, latten, latter, learnt, natant, natter, rattan, ratten, rattle, rental, talent, tanner, tantra, tarnal, tartan, tenant. | |
-4 letters: alane, alant, alate, alert, altar, alter, anear, anent, annal, antae, antra, antre, areal, arena, artal, artel, attar, laten, later, latte, leant, learn, natal, ratal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-n-n-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: alternating, alternation. | |
+3 letters: alternations, anthranilate, replantation, transplanted, transplanter, ultramontane, untranslated. | |
+4 letters: anthranilates, determinantal, interactional, intercalating, intercalation, international, nontheatrical, orientational, replantations, retranslating, retranslation, terminational, transparently, transplanters, ultramontanes. | |
+5 letters: centralization, intercalations, internationals, interplanetary, neutralization, presentational, reimplantation, reinstallation, retranslations, transcendental, transferential, transplacental, transplantable, untranslatable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 4C 54 45 52 4E 41 4E 54 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .-.. - . .-. -. .- -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A L T E R N A N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 004C 0054 0045 0052 004E 0041 004E 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)354654395248354854 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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