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Definition: CONGRESSION |
CONGRESSIONNoun1. A coming or bringing together, as in a public meeting, in a dispute, in the act of comparing, or in sexual intercourse. |
Date "CONGRESSION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Congression \Con*gres"sion\, noun. [Latin expression congressio.]. (Websters 1913) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CONGRESSION": congressional, congressionally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "CONGRESSION" (pronounced 'Con*gres"sion'): Abrasion, Abscession, Abscision, Abscission, Abstersion, Abstrusion, Abusion, Accension, Accession, Acutorsion, Addression, Adhesion, Admission, Adversion, Affusion, Aggression, Allision, Allusion, Amission, Animadversion, Anteversion, Appension, Apprehension, Appulsion, Arrosion, Ascension, Aspersion, Assession, Aversion, Avision, Avulsion, Catabasion, Cession, Circumclusion, Circumfusion, Circumincession, Coextension, Cohesion, Cointension, Collapsion, Collision, Collusion, Comprehension, Compression, Compulsion, Concession, Concision, Conclusion, Concussion, Condescension. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: consignors. | |
-2 letters: censoring, consignor, corniness, cosigners, necrosing, noncrises. | |
-3 letters: cognises, congress, conioses, consigns, coreigns, cosigner, crooning, crossing, encoring, erosions, goriness, ionogens, ironness, isogones, necrosis, negronis, orogenic, scorning, scrooges. | |
-4 letters: censing, censors, cessing, cession, cognise, coignes, coiners, congers, congoes, conines, conners, consign, coreign, corning, cosigns, cosines, cringes, cronies, engross, ensigns, eringos, erosion, ginners, goonies, goosier. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-g-i-n-n-o-o-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: congressional, processioning. | |
+4 letters: congressionally, incongruousness, recommissioning. | |
+5 letters: endocrinologists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 4E 47 52 45 53 53 49 4F 4E |
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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)-.-. --- -. --. .-. . ... ... .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01001110 01000111 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O N G R E S S I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 004E 0047 0052 0045 0053 0053 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)3749484152395353434948 |
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