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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CERN The European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CERN | English | Conseil Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire | Computer - (org., Europe, Geneva) |
CERN | French | Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire | N/A |
CERN | Italian | Centro Europeo per le Ricerche Nucleari | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CERN |
| Specialty definitions using "CERN": ADAMO, Application Software Installation Server ♦ CERNLIB, cfortran.h, CHEOPS ♦ EMDIR ♦ HBOOK ♦ PL-11 ♦ Quark-gluon plasma ♦ Schoonschip ♦ Tim Berners-Lee ♦ World Wide Web Consortium, world-wide web. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CERN" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research), Welsh (cheek, jaw). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Switzerland | Switzerland is the seat of many international, inter-governmental or private organizations ranging from the United Nations and associated organizations to CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), the International Red Cross and the International Olympic Committee. (references) |
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| "CERN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 76.19% of the time. "CERN" is used about 63 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) | 76.19% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Noun (common) | 9.52% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.94% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 4.76% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
cern | 163 |
cern ch gallen st | 7 |
cern root | 3 |
cern python | 3 |
cern geneva | 2 |
cern ftp latency | 2 |
cern lhc | 2 |
atlas cern | 2 |
cern library | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CERN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), det europæiske atomforskningscenter (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Europese Raad voor Kernonderzoek (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | CERN, Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ευρωπαϊκό κέντρο πυρηνικής έρευνας (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Centro Europeo per le Ricerche Nucleari (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erncay CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Organização Europeia de Pesquisa Nuclear (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) centro europeo de investigación nuclear (European Organization for Nuclear Research), CEIN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CERN": cernuous. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CERN": concern, decern, discern, lucern, nonconcern, overconcern, secern, unconcern. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CERN": concerned, concerning, concernment, concernments, concerns, decerned, decerning, decerns, discernable, discerned, discerner, discerners, discernible, discernibly, discerning, discerningly, discernment, discernments, discerns, indiscernible, lucerne, lucernes, lucerns, nonconcerns, overconcerned, overconcerning, overconcerns, secerned, secerning, secerns, unconcerned, unconcernedly, unconcernedness, unconcernednesses, unconcerns. (additional references) | |
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"CERN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cepn, Cerano, Cerc, Cerin, Cerj, Cernac, Cernyw, Cfer, Cherno, Cnen, Ecrm. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-r" | |
-1 letter: ern, rec. | |
-2 letters: en, er, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-r" | |
+1 letter: caner, crane, crone, nacre, nicer, rance, recon. | |
+2 letters: arcane, cancer, caners, canker, canner, canter, careen, carmen, carnet, carney, carnie, carven, casern, cavern, cedarn, censer, censor, center, centra, centre, cering, cinder, cloner, coiner, confer, conger, conker, conner, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, craned, cranes, craven, crenel, crepon, cretin, cringe, crones, cunner, dancer, decern, drench, encore, enrich, fencer, french, irenic, lancer, lucern, mincer, nacred, nacres, necker, nectar, nicker, orcein, pincer, prance, prince, rances, recane, recant, recent, reckon, recoin, recons, richen, screen, secern, tanrec, tenrec, trance, trench, wincer, wrench. | |
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