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Definition: COAPTATION |
COAPTATIONNoun1. The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint. |
Date "COAPTATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Etymology: Coaptation \Co`ap*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression coaptatio, from coaptare to fit together; co- aptare. See Aptate.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Fitness, aptness; Adjective: relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey; sortance; case in point; aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation; (relation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: COAPTATION |
| English words defined with "COAPTATION": Paragoge. (references) |
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Books | |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coaptation splint | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "COAPTATION": coaptations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "COAPTATION" (pronounced 'Co`ap*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-o-p-t-t" | |
-2 letters: potation. | |
-3 letters: antipot, captain, caption, paction, taction, tapioca, topcoat. | |
-4 letters: action, anatto, anopia, atonic, atopic, attain, capita, captan, cation, catnap, catnip, cotton, intact, octant, octopi, option, patina, pinata, potato, potion, ptotic, taipan, tipcat. | |
-5 letters: actin, antic, apian, attic, canto, capon, coapt, coati, conto, coopt, cotan, cotta, inapt, octan, ontic, optic, paint, panic, panto, patin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-n-o-o-p-t-t" | |
+1 letter: coaptations. | |
+2 letters: coadaptation. | |
+3 letters: anticorporate, coadaptations, computational. | |
+4 letters: procrastinator. | |
+5 letters: computationally, postvaccination, procrastination, procrastinators. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 41 50 54 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .- .--. - .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01000001 01010000 01010100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O A P T A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0041 0050 0054 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37493550543554434948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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