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ENCYCLOPEDICAL

Definition: ENCYCLOPEDICAL

ENCYCLOPEDICAL

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, an encyclopedia; embracing a wide range of subjects.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: ENCYCLOPEDICAL

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

Generality

Adjective: general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping; encyclopedical, widespread; (dispersed).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: ENCYCLOPEDICAL

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

Albanian

  

enciklopedik (cyclopaedic, cyclopedic, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic), i gjithanshëm (all round, all-rounder, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic, general, universal, versatile). (various references)

   

French

  

poussée. (various references)

   

German

  

umfassende (capaciously, comprehensive, comprehensively). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκυκλοπαιδικόσ (cyclopedic, encyclopedic, encyclopedist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

enciklopédikus (encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic), lexikális (encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic, lexical). (various references)

   

Italian

  

enciclopedico (encyclopaedic, encyclopedic, encyclopedically). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

encyclopedicalay

   

Portuguese

  

enciclopédia (encyclopaedia, encyclopedia, encyclopedic, encyclopedist, thesaurus). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

enciclopedic (encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

энциклопедический (cyclopaedic, cyclopedic, encyclopedic). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

enciklopedijski (cyclopedic, encyclopedic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ansiklopedik (encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

всеосяжний (all-embracing, catholic, comprehensive, cosmic, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic, omnibus, omnidirectional, overall, spacious), енциклопедичний (cyclopaedic, cyclopedic, encyclopaediac, encyclopaediacal, encyclopaedic, encyclopaedical, encyclopedic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ENCYCLOPEDICAL

Derivations

Words beginning with "ENCYCLOPEDICAL": encyclopedically. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ENCYCLOPEDICAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-l-n-o-p-y"

-1 letter: encyclopaedic.

-2 letters: encyclopedia, encyclopedic.

-4 letters: cyclodiene, cyclopedia, cyclopedic, encyclical, peccadillo.

-5 letters: accidence, calcicole, cancelled, concealed, conically, cycloidal, cyclopean, oedipally, pedocalic, pencilled.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-c-d-e-e-i-l-l-n-o-p-y"
 

+2 letters: encyclopedically.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ENCYCLOPEDICAL


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

45 4E 43 59 43 4C 4F 50 45 44 49 43 41 4C

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)

01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001 01000011 01001100 01001111 01010000 01000101 01000100 01001001 01000011 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 004E 0043 0059 0043 004C 004F 0050 0045 0044 0049 0043 0041 004C

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

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

3948375937464950393843373546

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INDEX

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


  

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