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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Federal Information Processing Standards) A National Institute of Standards and Technology program to achieve compatibility and interchangeability among data systems. (Also includes geographic codes). (references) |
Geological | The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is responsible for developing standards, guidelines, and associated methods and techniques for computer systems, including those needed to assure the cost-effective security and privacy of sensitive information in U.S. Federal computer systems. NIST adopts and publicizes U.S. FIPS standards under the provisions of Section 111(d) of the U.S. Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 as amended by the Computer Security Act of 1987. (Federal Information Processing Standard). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FIPS | English | Finance Personnel System | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FIPS |
| Specialty definitions using "FIPS": Advanced Encryption Standard ♦ barrio, barrio-pueblo ♦ Data Encryption Standard ♦ Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS-PUBS ♦ SDTS. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "FIPS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FIPS" is used about 4 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fips | 113 | 81 fips pub | 3 |
fips code | 47 | fips partition | 3 |
31 fips | 25 | fips download | 3 |
fips 140 | 23 | fips pub | 2 |
fips 140 2 | 14 | county fips | 2 |
fips county code | 11 | fips standard | 2 |
code country fips | 10 | fips nist | 2 |
code fips state | 6 | code fips weather | 2 |
fips 140 1 | 6 | 180 2 fips | 2 |
fips mouche | 5 | city code fips | 2 |
55 fips pub | 4 | code fips zip | 2 |
1 180 fips | 4 | disease fips | 2 |
1 104 fips | 3 | 55 fips | 2 |
199 fips | 3 | ||
55 fips | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FIPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 工厂检验计åˆ' (FIP). (various references) | ||||
Korean | FIP. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ipsfay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ifs, pis, psi, sip. | |
-2 letters: if, is, pi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-p-s" | |
+1 letter: flips, spiff. | |
+2 letters: pilafs, spiffs, spiffy, spliff. | |
+3 letters: fillips, fipples, foppish, panfish, piaffes, piffles, pigfish, pilaffs, pilfers, pinfish, postfix, presift, profits, puffins, pupfish, ripoffs, specify, spiffed, spinoff, spliffs, sportif, tipoffs, uplifts, upshift. | |
+4 letters: disproof, finespun, firepans, firepots, fishpole, fishpond, fissiped, fivepins, flagship, fleapits, flippers, flippest, floppies, forcipes, frumpish, lumpfish, opsonify, pacifies, pacifism, pacifist, pailfuls, pailsful, panfries, parfaits, pfennigs, piaffers, pickoffs, pieforts, pinfolds, pipefish, pipefuls, pisiform, pitfalls, pontiffs, postfire, prefiles, prefires, prefixes, presifts, profiles, puffiest, purifies, saponify, scarfpin, shoplift, simplify, slipform, specific, spiffier, spiffily, spiffing, spinifex, spinoffs, spiteful, spitfire, spoofing, superfix, tepefies, tipstaff, typifies, upflings, upshifts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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