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Definition: Galton |
GaltonNoun1. English scientist (cousin of Charles Darwin) who explored many fields: heredity, meteorology, statistics, psychology, anthropology; founder of eugenics and first to use fingerprints for identification (1822-1911). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Galton" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references) |
"Galton" is a common misspelling or typo for: galleon, gallon, galloon, gallstone. |
Synonyms: GaltonSynonyms: Francis Galton (n), Sir Francis Galton (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Galton ogive (mathematics, statistics), Galton whistle (medicine, physics), Galton's individual difference problem (mathematics, statistics), Galton's rank order test, Galton-Watson process (mathematics, statistics). |
Crosswords: Galton |
| English words defined with "Galton": Francis Galton ♦ Sir Francis Galton. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Galton": Galton ogive. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Galton and Simpson Comedy (1969) Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... (1996) Galton and Simpson Playhouse (1977) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Galton" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Galton" is used about 65 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% | 65 | 41,645 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Galton": Francis Galton ♦ Galton ogive ♦ Sir Francis Galton. Additional references. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
francis galton | 21 |
eugenics galton | 15 |
galton sir francis | 11 |
galton | 10 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Galton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Galton-Watson-proces (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Dutch | Galton-Watson-proces (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Finnish | Galtonin-Watsonin prosessi (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
German | Galton-Watson-Prozess (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Greek | διαδικασία Galton-Watson (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Italian | processo di Galton-Watson (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | altongay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | processo de Galton-Watson (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Spanish | proceso de Galton-Watson (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
Swedish | GaltonWatson-process (Galton-Watson process). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: along, gloat, logan, notal, talon, tango, tolan, tonal, tonga. | |
-2 letters: agon, alto, gaol, gnat, goal, goat, lang, loan, long, lota, nota, tang, toga, tola, tong. | |
-3 letters: ago, alt, ant, gal, gan, gat, goa, got, lag, lat, log, lot, nag, nog, not, oat, tag, tan, tao, tog, ton. | |
-4 letters: ag, al, an, at, go, la, lo, na, no, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: antilog, tangelo. | |
+2 letters: antilogs, antilogy, bloating, elongate, flatlong, floating, gantlope, gelation, glasnost, gloating, intaglio, legation, ligation, loathing, locating, longboat, octangle, solating, tagalong, tangelos, totaling, trigonal. | |
+3 letters: allotting, analogist, anthology, balloting, coagulant, cognately, collating, elongated, elongates, flagstone, foliating, gallstone, gantelope, gantlopes, gelations, gladstone, glasnosts, gluconate, halogeton, intaglios, isolating, langouste, legations, ligations, loathings, longboats, nostalgia, nostalgic, octagonal, octangles, onslaught, outlawing, outlaying, ovulating, oxalating, solvating, tagalongs, tailoring, tallowing, totalling, violating. | |
+4 letters: allegation, allocating, analogists, angulation, antilogies, arrogantly, autolysing, autolyzing, batfowling, bloviating, bobtailing, cataloging, coagulants, colocating, conflating, congenital, conglobate, copulating, corelating, delegation, desolating, elongating, elongation, etiolating, flagstones, gadolinite, gallstones, gantelopes, gelatinous, glaciation, gladstones, glauconite, gleization, gloatingly, gluconates, goaltender, granulator, gyrational, halogenate, halogetons, heptagonal, ignorantly, immolating, insolating, intaglioed, lactogenic, langostino, langoustes, levigation, litigation, modulating, negational, negotiable, nematology, nongenital, nostalgias, nostalgics, nostalgist, obligating, obligation, onslaughts, oppilating, orthogonal, osculating, outbawling, outblazing, outfabling, outgeneral, outglaring, outlasting, outleaping, outplaying, outsailing, outtalking, outvaluing, outwalking, patrolling, pentagonal, platooning, poignantly, populating, refloating, regulation, relegation, relocating, spoliating, tailorings, tallyhoing, tetragonal, theologian, toenailing, tolerating, toolmaking, topgallant, totalising, totalizing, trigonally, urogenital. | |
+5 letters: agitational, allegations, alloantigen, amblygonite, angioplasty, angulations, anthologies, anthologist, anthologize, antifouling, antilogical, autoclaving, autoloading, battlewagon, cataloguing, coagulating, coagulation, cocktailing, cognitional, colligating, colligation, collimating, collocating, conflagrant, congealment, congelation, conglobated, conglobates, conjugality, conjugately, correlating, decollating, defoliating, delegations, diphthongal, dislocating, dovetailing, elaborating, elongations, exfoliating, flatfooting, formulating, fulguration, gadolinites, genealogist, genotypical, gentlewoman, gestational, glaciations, glauconites, glauconitic, gleizations, glutathione, goaltenders, goaltending, gradational, granolithic, granulation, granulators, granulocyte, granulomata, gratulation, halogenated, halogenates, haptoglobin, inoculating, intaglioing, invigilator, langostinos, langoustine, legislation, levigations, ligamentous, litigations, logistician, longanimity, meliorating, migrational, mislocating, mothballing, narratology, neonatology, nondelegate, nonintegral, nostalgists, obligations, octagonally, onomatology, ontological, originality, oscillating, outbleating, outbrawling, outcaviling, outclassing, outcrawling, outdazzling, outflanking, outgenerals, outlaughing, outlearning, outplanning, outrivaling, oversalting, overtalking, pentagonals, percolating, planetology, pollinating, postlanding, postulating, potlatching, reallotting, regionalist, regulations, relegations, retailoring, sailboating, sporulating, stagflation, subtotaling, sulfonating, teetotaling, thanatology, theologians, toolmakings, topgallants, uncataloged. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 6C 74 6F 6E |
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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)01000111 01100001 01101100 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a l t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 006C 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)416778868180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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