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Definition: Copernicus |
CopernicusNoun1. Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543). 2. A conspicuous crater on the moon. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Copernicus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references) |
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Physics | NASA ultraviolet/X-ray mission, also known as OAO-3. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The formation of this crater marks the beginning of the Copernician period of the lunar geologic timescale.
There is also a crater named Copernicus on Mars.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Copernicus crater."
Synonyms: CopernicusSynonyms: Mikolaj Kopernik (n), Nicolaus Copernicus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Copernicus |
| English words defined with "Copernicus": Claudius Ptolemaeus, Copernican ♦ Prutenic, Ptolemy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Copernicus": Copernicanism, Copernicus, Nicolaus 1473-1543 ♦ Galilei, Galileo. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Copernicus (1973) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Close-up of the crater Copernicus taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Copernicus" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.86% of the time. "Copernicus" is used about 28 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 (proper) | 92.86% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
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Expression using "Copernicus": Nicolaus Copernicus. Additional references. | |
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| 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 "Copernicus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | copernic. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | opernicuscay | ||||
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"Copernicus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Capurnicum, Copernica, Coprinus, Copronymus. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: coprinces, occupiers. | |
-2 letters: coinsure, conciser, conspire, coprince, cornices, croceins, incorpse, occupier, occupies, pouncers, precious, pruinose. | |
-3 letters: ciceros, coenuri, coiners, concise, concurs, copiers, cornice, crepons, crispen, crocein, crocine, cronies, croupes, inpours, orceins, orpines, piceous, pincers, porcine, pouncer, pounces, princes, purines, recoins, recoups, soupier, uprisen, urinose. | |
-4 letters: censor, cercis, cercus, cerous, cicero, circus, coiner, concur, conics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-i-n-o-p-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: corpulencies, cupronickels, preconscious. | |
+3 letters: reoccupations. | |
+4 letters: capriciousness, circumspection, counterpickets, hyperconscious, micropunctures, precociousness, preconsciouses, preconsciously, preoccupancies, preoccupations, psychoneurotic. | |
+5 letters: circumspections, conceptualizers, psychoneurotics, superconducting, superconductive. | |
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