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Definition: CRO |
CRONoun1. Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "CRO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
| 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 |
CRO | English | Cathode-ray oscilloscope | N/A |
CRO | French | Croatie | Geography |
CRO | German | Kroatien | Geography |
CRO | Greek | ελεγχόμενη εξάπλωση | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: CROSynonyms: cathode-ray oscilloscope (n), oscilloscope (n), scope (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: CRO |
| English words defined with "CRO": Chromous acid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "CRO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Manx (gall, nut). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Cro (1993) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "CRO" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "CRO" is used about 9 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 | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CRO": cro-magnon, Cro-magnons, cro-operator, cro-quette. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "CRO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | クロス商い (chloromycetin, chromatography, chromium, chronicle, chrono, chronobiology, chronograph, chronometer, chronoscope, clock, clomiphene, closet, crocus, Cro-Magnon, cropped pants, croquet, cross trade, crossing zone, Kronecker, Kronecker delta). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | クロマニョン (Cro-Magnon). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ocray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CRO": croak, croaked, croaker, croakers, croakier, croakiest, croakily, croaking, croaks, croaky, croc, crocein, croceine, croceines, croceins, crochet, crocheted, crocheter, crocheters, crocheting, crochets, croci, crocidolite, crocidolites, crocine, crock, crocked, crockeries, crockery, crocket, crocketed, crockets, crocking, crocks, crocodile, crocodiles, crocodilian, crocodilians, crocoite, crocoites, crocs, crocus, crocuses, croft, crofter, crofters, crofts, croissant, croissants, crojik, crojiks. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CRO": macro, micro, mucro, semimicro, supermicro, ultramicro. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CRO": acrobat, acrobatic, acrobatically, acrobatics, acrobats, acrocentric, acrocentrics, acrodont, acrodonts, acrogen, acrogens, acrolect, acrolects, acrolein, acroleins, acrolith, acroliths, acromegalic, acromegalics, acromegalies, acromegaly, acromia, acromial, acromion, acromions, acronic, acronym, acronymic, acronymically, acronyms, acropetal, acropetally, acrophobe, acrophobes, acrophobia, acrophobias, acropolis, acropolises, acrosomal, acrosome, acrosomes, across, acrostic, acrostical, acrostically, acrostics, acrotic, acrotism, acrotisms, antimicrobial, antimicrobials. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cor, orc, roc. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-r" | |
-1 letter: or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-r" | |
+1 letter: arco, cero, coir, cord, core, corf, cork, corm, corn, cors, cory, croc, crop, crow, orca, orcs, rock, rocs, torc. | |
+2 letters: acorn, actor, boric, brock, bronc, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, ceorl, ceros, chiro, choir, chord, chore, claro, clour, cobra, coder, coirs, color, comer, cooer, coper, copra, coral, corby, cords, cored, corer, cores, corgi, coria, corks, corky, corms, corns, cornu, corny, corps, corse, court, cover, cower, cowry, coyer, credo, croak, croci, crock, crocs, croft, crone, crony, crook, croon, crops, crore, cross, croup, crowd, crown, crows, croze, cruor, curio, decor, duroc, force, frock, ichor, macro, micro, mucor, mucro, narco, occur, ocher, ochre, ochry, ocker, ocrea, orach, orcas, orcin, orgic, porch, racon, recon, recto, roach, rocks, rocky, rotch, score, scorn, scour, scrod, taroc, torch, torcs, toric, trock, zorch. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Abbreviations 11. Acronyms 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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