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Eddington

Definition: Eddington

Eddington

Noun

1. English astronomer remembered for his popular elucidation of relativity theory (1882-1944).

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

Synonym: Eddington

Synonym: Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Eddington

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Eddington is the name of several places

United States of America

United Kingdom

Also see:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Eddington."

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Crosswords: Eddington

English words defined with "Eddington": Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Eddington": 04428Eddington limit. (references)

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Image Slideshow: Eddington

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Eddington

"Eddington" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eddington" is used about 21 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)100%2176,261

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

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Name Usage Frequency: Eddington

The following table summarizes the usage of "Eddington" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
EddingtonLast name1,0009,244
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Eddington

Expressions using "Eddington": East Eddington Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Eddington": Eddington-finkelstein, eddington-limited.

Ending with "Eddington": Cornwells Heights-Eddington.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eddington

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

eddington

34

paul eddington

7

eddington mark

5

eddington hook

4

eddington supply

3

eddington pitbull

3

eddington rod

2

eddington jelani

2

eddington maine

2

arthur eddington

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eddington

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

Pig Latin

  

eddingtonay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Eddington

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-i-n-n-o-t"

-1 letter: denoting.

-2 letters: denting, dentoid, ingoted, intoned, nodding, tedding, tending.

-3 letters: dentin, dinged, dinned, dinted, doited, donned, doting, ending, ginned, indent, intend, intone, nidget, noting, tendon, tinged, tinned, toeing, tonged, toning.

-4 letters: deign, dined, dinge, dingo, diode, dodge, dogie, doing, donne, doted, geoid, godet, ingot, inned, nided, niton, nonet, noted, teind, tenon, tided, tigon, tined, tinge, tondi, toned, tonne.

-5 letters: deni, dent, dido, died, diet, dine, ding, dint, dite, doge, doit, done, dong, dote, eddo, edit, gent, gied, gien, gone, into, neon, nide, nine, nite, node, nodi, none, note, tend, tide, tied, tine, ting, toed, tone, tong.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-g-i-n-n-o-t"
 

+5 letters: counterbidding, deconditioning.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Eddington


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

45 64 64 69 6E 67 74 6F 6E

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)

01000101 01100100 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110100 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#100 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#116 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0064 0064 0069 006E 0067 0074 006F 006E

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

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

397070758073868180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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