BABBAGE

Date "BABBAGE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Specialty Definition: BABBAGE

Domain	Definition
Computing	Babbage The structured assembly language for the General Electric Company 4xxx range of computers and their OS4000 operating system. It is strictly an assembler in that the generated code is relatively predictable but it can be written in a sufficiently structured manner, with indentation, control statements, function and procedure calls, to make the resultant source easy to read and manage. Even with this visible structure however, it is important to remember that the assembly of the statement is done left to right. The British videotext system, Prestel is programmed in Babbage. [1980's article in Datamation]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Crosswords: BABBAGE

English words defined with "BABBAGE": Calculating machine. (references)

Specialty definitions using "BABBAGE": Ada Lovelace, analytic engine, Analytical Engine ♦ Babbage, Charles ♦ computer literacy ♦ Difference Engine. (references)

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Modern Usage: BABBAGE

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Babbage (1968)
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Commercial Usage: BABBAGE

Domain	Title
Books	A Manual of Operation for the Automated Sequence Controlled Calculator (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) (reference) BOOLE & BABBAGE, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, and Calculating Instruments and Machines (Charles Babbage Institute Reprint) (reference) Glory and Failure: The Difference Engines of Johann Müller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Sheutz (History of Computing) (reference) Guide to the Oral History Collection of Charles Babbage Institute (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: BABBAGE

"BABBAGE" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.30% of the time. "BABBAGE" is used about 27 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)	96.3%	26	68,323
Lexical Verb (base form)	3.7%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	27	N/A

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

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Expression: BABBAGE

Expression using "BABBAGE": Charles Babbage. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BABBAGE

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
charles babbage	261	babbage charles de historia	4
babbage	59	babbage inventor	3
babbage charles de vida	35	babbage charles invention	3
babbage biography charles	9	babbage etc software	3
babbage simmel	9	babbage computer	3
babbage biografia charles de	9	babbage charles who	2
babbage charles picture	8	analytical babbage engine	2
babbage biografia charles	8	babbage charle de vida	2
babbage charles de historia o vida	6	babbage charles difference engine	2
babbage s.com	6	babbage charles inventor	2
babbage charles computer history	5	babbage charles de la vida	2
boole babbage	4
		babbage charles de la vida	2
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Modern Translation: BABBAGE

Language		Translations for "BABBAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		BIKIT (Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information Technology, BIKIT), Babbage Instituut voor Informatietechnologie (Babbage Institute for Knowledge and Information Technology, BIKIT). (various references)

Pig Latin		abbagebay
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Anagrams: BABBAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-b-e-g"
	-3 letters: abba, abbe, baba, babe.
	-4 letters: aba, aga, age, baa, bag, beg, ebb, gab, gae.
	-5 letters: aa, ab, ae, ag, ba, be.
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