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CAYLEY

"CAYLEY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Caollaidhe's descendent", "slender".

Date "CAYLEY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)


Specialty Definition: CAYLEY

DomainDefinition

Computing

CAYLEY A symbolic mathematics system for group theory written by John Cannon of the University of Sydney, Australia in 1976. Cayley was used at about 100 sites but has been superseded by a much more general system, Magma. ["An Introduction to the Group Theory Language CAYLEY", J. Cannon, Computational Group Theory, M.D. Atkinson ed, Academic Press 1984, pp. 148-183]. Current version: V3.7, for Sun, Apollo, VAX/VMS. (2000-09-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Crosswords: CAYLEY

Specialty definitions using "CAYLEY": symbolic mathematics. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CAYLEY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Quaternions and Cayley Numbers: Algebra and Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications (Kluwer Acad Pub), Vol 403) (reference)

  • Spinors, Clifford, and Cayley Algebras (Interdisciplinary Mathematics Series Vol 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: CAYLEY

"CAYLEY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CAYLEY" is used about 19 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%1980,337

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

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Derived & Related Names: CAYLEY

"CAYLEY" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "Caollaidhe's descendent", "slender".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "CAYLEY."
NameGenderLanguageRelated Name
KailaFemaleN/AKayley
CaelieFemaleEnglishKayley
CaileighFemaleEnglishKayley
CaleighFemaleEnglishKayley
CayleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaeleaFemaleEnglishKayley
KaeleeFemaleEnglishKayley
KaileeFemaleEnglishKayley
KaileyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KaleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylaFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleahFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleeFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleenFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleyFemaleEnglishN/A
KaylieFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylyFemaleEnglishKayley
KaylynFemaleEnglishKayley
KeeleighFemaleEnglishKayley
KeeleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KeelyFemaleEnglishKayley
KeighleyFemaleEnglishKayley
KayleyFemaleIrishN/A
KeeleyFemaleIrishKayley
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: CAYLEY

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CAYLEY": Cayley-hamilton, Cayley-torrington.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAYLEY

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

cayley de hamilton teorema

14

cayley george sir

14

arthur cayley

10

cayley

9

cayley hamilton

7

cayley george

5

algebra cayley de hamilton lineal teorema

3

cayley hamilton teorema

2

cayley de teorema

2

cayley hamilton theorem

2
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Anagrams: CAYLEY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: clayey.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-y-y"

-1 letter: lacey, lycea.

-2 letters: acyl, alec, clay, lace, lacy.

-3 letters: ace, ale, aye, cay, cel, lac, lay, lea, ley, lye, yay, yea.

-4 letters: ae, al, ay, el, la, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-y-y"
 

+4 letters: phylactery.

 

+5 letters: enzymically, glycosylate, gynaecology, viceroyalty.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAYLEY


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

43 41 59 4C 45 59

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

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

=

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)

01000011 01000001 01011001 01001100 01000101 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#89 &#76 &#69 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0059 004C 0045 0059

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

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

373559463959

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Derived from
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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