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DISSEPIMENT

Definition: DISSEPIMENT

DISSEPIMENT

Noun

1. One of the transverse, calcareous partitions between the radiating septa of a coral.

2. One of the partitions which divide a compound ovary into cells.

3. A separating tissue; a partition; a septum.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Dissepiment \Dis*sep"i*ment\, noun. [Latin expression dissaepimentum, from dissaepire; dis- saepire to hedge in, inclose.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DISSEPIMENT

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interposition

Partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment; party wall, panel, room divider.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: DISSEPIMENT

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

Arabic 

  

‏إنشقاق (cleavage, desertion, dissent, dissidence, fissure, rent, schism, scission, separation, split, split up, splitting). (various references)

   

French

  

dissidence (dissidence), opposition (difference). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

issepimentday

   

Portuguese

  

voto contrário (blackball). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

перегородка (bulkhead, hurdle, marginal closure, partition, septa, septum). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vách ngăn. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: DISSEPIMENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "DISSEPIMENT": dissepiments. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: DISSEPIMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-t"

-2 letters: densities, destinies, emptiness, pediments, sediments, tepidness, timidness.

-3 letters: despites, destines, dispense, enmities, insisted, itemised, itemises, mindsets, misedits, misspend, misspent, mistends, pediment, pietisms, sediment, septimes, sidespin, sidestep, sienites, spiniest, stipends, tidiness.

-4 letters: deities, dements, demises, densest, despise, despite, destine, dimness, dipnets, dissent, emetins, emptied, empties, emptins, endites, impedes, impends, indites, insides, insteps, itemise, meinies.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: dissepiments.

 

+2 letters: pedestrianism.

 

+3 letters: pedestrianisms, pseudonymities.

 

+4 letters: aminopeptidases, lymphadenitises.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DISSEPIMENT


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

44 49 53 53 45 50 49 4D 45 4E 54

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)

-..    ..    ...    ...    .    .--.    ..    --    .    -.    -

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

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

01000100 01001001 01010011 01010011 01000101 01010000 01001001 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#83 &#83 &#69 &#80 &#73 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0053 0053 0045 0050 0049 004D 0045 004E 0054

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

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

3843535339504347394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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