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Date "CIR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CIR Committed Information Rate. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Current Industrial Reports) Statistical reports on a variety of industrial products. (Manufacturing and Construction Division). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
CIR | English | Canada-India-Reactor | N/A |
CIR | French | Débit garanti | Post & Telecom |
CIR | Spanish | Código identificativo de radio | Post & Telecom |
| CIR Unit | English | Colonial Insecticide Research Unit | Food & Agriculture |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: CIR |
| Etymologies containing "CIR": Cargoose. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CIR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (quarter), Romanian (shoo). |
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
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Consumer Goods | |||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "CIR" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 35.71% of the time. "CIR" is used about 14 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 |
| Unclassified Items | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 21.43% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | 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 |
cir | 159 |
cir realtor | 30 |
cir realty | 15 |
cir realtor calgary | 7 |
cir city | 7 |
cir de sole | 6 |
calgary cir | 5 |
calgary cir realty | 5 |
cir pspice | 4 |
103 cir | 4 |
cir estate real | 4 |
frame relay cir | 3 |
cir kitconcepts.com | 3 |
cir laplace pspice | 3 |
calgary cir estate real | 2 |
cir de sol | 2 |
cir el supergirl | 2 |
cir law office | 2 |
cir connection designate does frame in relay | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 約定資訊速率 (committed information rate). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ircay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CIR": circa, circadian, circinate, circinately, circle, circled, circler, circlers, circles, circlet, circlets, circling, circuit, circuital, circuited, circuities, circuiting, circuitous, circuitously, circuitousness, circuitousnesses, circuitries, circuitry, circuits, circuity, circular, circularise, circularised, circularises, circularising, circularities, circularity, circularization, circularizations, circularize, circularized, circularizes, circularizing, circularly, circularness, circularnesses, circulars, circulatable, circulate, circulated, circulates, circulating, circulation, circulations, circulative, circulator. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CIR": encircle, encircled, encirclement, encirclements, encircles, encircling, microcircuit, microcircuitries, microcircuitry, microcircuits, microcirculation, microcirculations, microcirculatory, noncircular, noncirculating, recircle, recircled, recircles, recircling, recirculate, recirculated, recirculates, recirculating, recirculation, recirculations, scirocco, sciroccos, scirrhi, scirrhous, scirrhus, scirrhuses, semicircle, semicircles, semicircular, uncirculated, uncircumcised, uncircumcision, uncircumcisions, velociraptor, velociraptors. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-r" | |
+1 letter: cire, coir, crib, cris, rice, rich, rick, uric. | |
+2 letters: acari, acrid, areic, auric, baric, birch, boric, brick, caird, cairn, carpi, cerci, ceria, ceric, chair, chirk, chirm, chiro, chirp, chirr, choir, cider, cigar, circa, cires, cirri, citer, coirs, corgi, coria, cribs, crick, cried, crier, cries, crime, crimp, cripe, crisp, croci, curia, curie, curio, daric, dicer, erica, farci, ichor, icier, icker, incur, lyric, micra, micro, naric, nicer, orcin, orgic, price, prick, pricy, pyric, rabic, recti, relic, riced, ricer, rices, ricin, ricks, runic, scrim, scrip, toric, triac, trice, trick, ureic, vicar, wrick, xeric. | |
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