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Definition: Foucault |
FoucaultNoun1. French physicist who determined the speed of light and showed that it travels slower in water than in air; invented the Foucault pendulum and the gyroscope (1819-1868). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Foucault" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
Synonym: FoucaultSynonym: Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Foucault currents brake spring (industry), Foucault grid (medicine), Foucault's resolution target (geography, physics), test target of foucault (fine arts, physics). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Foucault."
Crosswords: Foucault |
| English words defined with "Foucault": Foucault pendulum ♦ Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Foucault": Foucault grid. (references) |
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| "Foucault" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 97.56% of the time. "Foucault" is used about 287 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) | 97.56% | 280 | 17,458 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.39% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.35% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 287 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Foucault" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Foucault | Last name | 130 | 64,042 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Foucault": Foucault current ♦ Foucault grid ♦ Foucault pendulum ♦ Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Foucault": Derrida-foucault. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-l-o-t-u-u" | |
-3 letters: afoul, aloft, clout, fault, float, flota, flout, focal, octal. | |
-4 letters: alto, auto, calf, calo, caul, clot, coal, coat, coft, cola, colt, cult, fact, flat, floc, foal, foul, loaf, loca, loft, lota, lout, luau, taco, talc, tofu, tola, tolu, tufa. | |
-5 letters: act, aft, alt, cat, col, cot, cut, fat, flu, fou, lac, lat, lot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-l-o-t-u-u" | |
+3 letters: fluctuation. | |
+4 letters: fluctuations. | |
+5 letters: floricultural, fluctuational, futurological. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 6F 75 63 61 75 6C 74 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. --- ..- -.-. .- ..- .-.. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101111 01110101 01100011 01100001 01110101 01101100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F o u c a u l t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 006F 0075 0063 0061 0075 006C 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4081876967877886 |
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