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Definition: CONSPICUITY |
CONSPICUITYNoun1. The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness. |
Date "CONSPICUITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
Note: Conspicuity \Con`spi*cu"i*ty\, noun. The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuousness.. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Transportation | An ability to be seen, recognised and identified as a particular element of the traffic system. Conspicuity thus implies that a particular object must "compete" with other objects to attract attention. For example, a pedestrian is conspicuous at a given distance if there is a high probability that he is detected and recognised as a pedestrian by other road users against the traffic background. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "CONSPICUITY" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CONSPICUITY" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "CONSPICUITY": conspicuity enhancement. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
conspicuity tape vehicle | 9 |
3m conspicuity tape | 8 |
conspicuity | 7 |
conspicuity tape | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONSPICUITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 显眼 (Conspicuous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | perceptibilité (conspicuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "בלט" (emphasis, projection, prominence, splash, stress). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | láthatóság fokozása (conspicuity enhancement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cospicuit (sightliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onspicuitycay очевидность (evidence, obviousness, palpability, patency, plainness). (various references) ortada olma (being in the middle, conspicuousness), göze çarpma (conspicuousness, evidence, salience, saliency), barizlik (conspicuousness). (various references) sự rõ r ng (conspicuousness, limpidity, limpidness), sự dễ thấy (conspicuousness), sự đập ngay v o mắt (conspicuousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "CONSPICUITY" (pronounced 'Con`spi*cu"i*ty'): Ability, Abnormality, Abnormity, Aboriginality, Absorbability, Absorptivity, Abstrusity, Absurdity, Accendibility, Accentuality, Acceptability, Accessibility, Accidentality, Acclivity, Accomplicity, Accountability, Acerbity, Acetosity, Achromaticity, Acidity, Acquirability, Acrity, Activity, Actuality, Actuosity, Acuity, Addibility, Admirability, Admiralty, Admissibility, Adorability, Aduncity, Adverbiality, Adversity, Advisability, Aeriality, Affability, Affectibility, Agaty, Agility, Agreeability, Alacrity, Alamodality, Aldermanity, Algidity, Alibility, Alienability, Alkalinity, Allotropicity, Alterability. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-i-i-n-o-p-s-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: isopycnic, pinocytic. | |
-3 letters: conicity, isotypic, occiputs, pycnotic, sinciput, syncopic, synoptic. | |
-4 letters: copyist, occiput, picnics, piosity, spinout, suction. | |
-5 letters: coitus, conics, counts, county, cousin, coypus, cutins, cynics, cystic, cytons, iconic, inputs, ionics, occupy, optics, outsin, picnic, picots, pinots, pintos, pionic, piston, pitons, points, pointy, postin, puntos, putons, snouty, spinto, stucco, tocsin, tonics, topics, tunics, unstop. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-i-i-n-o-p-s-t-u-y" | |
+5 letters: neuropsychiatric, psycholinguistic. | |
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