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DIPLEIDOSCOPE

Definition: DIPLEIDOSCOPE

DIPLEIDOSCOPE

Noun

1. An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is on the meridian.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dipleidoscope \Di*plei"do*scope\, noun. [Greek expression double image -scope.]. (Websters 1913)


Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIPLEIDOSCOPE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dipleidoscope

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DIPLEIDOSCOPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-d-e-e-i-i-l-o-o-p-p-s"

-3 letters: dispeopled.

-4 letters: despoiled, diplopods, discipled, dispeople.

-5 letters: copepods, deicides, dioecies, diopside, diploids, diplopic, diplopod, dipodies, disciple, displode, eclipsed, episcope, episodic, idolised, lopsided, pedicels, pedicled, pedicles, pleopods, ploidies, podsolic, policies, poolside, popsicle.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DIPLEIDOSCOPE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 50 4C 45 49 44 4F 53 43 4F 50 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010000 01001100 01000101 01001001 01000100 01001111 01010011 01000011 01001111 01010000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0050 004C 0045 0049 0044 004F 0053 0043 004F 0050 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38435046394338495337495039

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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