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Dirac

Definition: Dirac

Dirac

Noun

1. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Dirac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Dirac

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DIRAC

EnglishDatabase for reliability calculationsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Dirac

Synonym: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: Database for reliability calculations (computing, post & telecom).

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Crosswords: Dirac

English words defined with "Dirac": Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Dirac

DomainTitle

Books

  • Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures (reference)

  • Dirac Structures and Integrability of Nonlinear Evolution Equations (Nonlinear Science Theory and Applications) (reference)

  • Towards the Final Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lecture (Book & VHS-NTSC Tape) (reference)

  • Dirac Kets, Gamow Vectors, and Gel'fand Triplets: The Rigged Hilbert Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Lectures in Mathematical Physics at the U (reference)

  • Current trends in the theory of fields : (Tallahassee-1978) : a symposium in honor of P. A. M. Dirac (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Dirac

"Dirac" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Dirac" is used about 30 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)96.67%2964,444
Adjective (general or positive)3.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Dirac

Expression using "Dirac": Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "Dirac": Fermi-Dirac.

Containing "Dirac": Fermi-Dirac statistics.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dirac

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

dirac

23

paul dirac

14

dirac equation

12

delta dirac function

10

de delta dirac

5

dirac sea

5

delta dirac

3

dirac function wave

2

dirac notation

2
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Modern Translations: Dirac

Language Translations for "Dirac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Dirac-funktion (Dirac function), Plancks virkningskvantum h delt med 2 pi (Dirac function). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

diracfunctie (Dirac function), constante van Dirac (Dirac function). (various references)

   

French

  

H barré (Dirac function), fonction de Dirac (Dirac function), constante réduite de Planck (Dirac function). (various references)

   

German

  

Dirac-Funktion (Dirac function, h bar), H Quer (Dirac function, h bar). (various references)

   

Italian

  

H tagliato (Dirac function, h bar), H di Dirac (Dirac function, h bar), funzione di Dirac (Dirac function, h bar), costante di Dirac (Dirac function, h bar). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iracday

   

Swedish

  

Dirac-funktion (Dirac function, h bar). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Dirac

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acrid, caird, daric.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-r"

-1 letter: acid, arid, cadi, caid, card, raid.

-2 letters: aid, air, arc, cad, car, rad, ria, rid.

-3 letters: ad, ai, ar, id.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-r"
 

+1 letter: acarid, bardic, cairds, cardia, caried, chadri, darics, rancid.

 

+2 letters: acarids, acaroid, acrider, acridly, arcadia, ascarid, baldric, bawdric, cairned, carabid, carbide, cardiac, cardiae, cardias, carding, carotid, carried, catbird, chaired, cordial, corrida, daturic, deciare, decrial, dharmic, diarchy, discard, drastic, dryadic, faradic, iracund, parodic, peracid, picador, quadric, radical, radicel, radices, radicle, sarcoid, sidecar, triacid, triadic, triclad.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Dirac


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

44 69 72 61 63

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

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

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    .-.    .-    -.-.

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

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

01000100 01101001 01110010 01100001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#105 &#114 &#97 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0069 0072 0061 0063

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

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

3875846769

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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