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FOSDIC

Specialty Definition: FOSDIC

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(Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers) An optical device that reads the location of filled-in dots on a precisely aligned form that has been microfilmed, converting the data to a magnetic tape format. FOSDIC dots represent numeric or alphabetic codes. (references)

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

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Crosswords: FOSDIC

Specialty definitions using "FOSDIC": FACT_90. (references)

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

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Anagrams: FOSDIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-f-i-o-s"

-1 letter: coifs, disco, fidos, sodic.

-2 letters: cods, coif, disc, docs, fico, fido, fids, fisc, foci, odic.

-3 letters: cis, cod, cos, dis, doc, dos, fid, ids, ifs, ods, sic, sod.

-4 letters: do, id, if, is, od, of, os, si, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-f-i-o-s"
 

+1 letter: codfish, fucoids.

 

+2 letters: codifies, confides, disfrock, factoids.

 

+3 letters: chiefdoms, codfishes, codifiers, confiders, disciform, discomfit, disfrocks, focalised, fossicked, scorified, sudorific.

 

+4 letters: coalfields, confidants, cornfields, defections, defocusing, discomfits, discomfort, disconfirm, disfrocked, fricandoes, misfocused, picofarads, recodifies, sudorifics.

 

+5 letters: aficionadas, aficionados, chiffonades, childproofs, closefisted, commodifies, confidantes, confidences, confirmands, confiscated, defecations, deflections, defocussing, discomfited, discomforts, disconfirms, disfrocking, disfunction, dysfunction, forecaddies, goldfinches, microfarads, misfocussed, scaffolding.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FOSDIC


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

46 4F 53 44 49 43

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)

01000110 01001111 01010011 01000100 01001001 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#79 &#83 &#68 &#73 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004F 0053 0044 0049 0043

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

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

404953384337

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3. Orthography
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