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Gamow

Definition: Gamow

Gamow

Noun

1. United States physicist (born in Russia) who was a proponent of the big-bang theory and who did research in radioactivity and suggested the triplet code for DNA (1904-1968).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Gamow

Synonym: George Gamow (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Gamow barrier (physics), Gamow-Teller selection rules, nuclear barrier, potential barrier.

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Crosswords: Gamow

English words defined with "Gamow": George Gamow. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Gamow

DomainTitle

Books

  • Dirac Kets, Gamow Vectors, and Gel'fand Triplets: The Rigged Hilbert Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics: Lectures in Mathematical Physics at the U (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Gamow

"Gamow" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gamow" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Gamow

Expression using "Gamow": George Gamow. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Gamow": Gamow-Teller.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gamow

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

george gamow

13

gamow

5

chess gamow

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gamow

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

Danish

  

Gamow-Teller-udvalgsregler (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

selectieregels van Gamow en Teller (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

   

French

  

règles de sélection de Gamow-Teller (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

   

German

  

Gamow-Teller-Auswahlregeln (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

   

Italian

  

regole di selezione di Gamow-Teller (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amowgay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

Gamow-Tellers urvalsregler (Gamow-Teller selection rules). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Gamow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-m-o-w"

-1 letter: ogam.

-2 letters: ago, gam, goa, mag, maw, moa, mog, mow, wag, wog.

-3 letters: ag, am, aw, go, ma, mo, om, ow, wo.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-m-o-w"
 

+2 letters: bagworm, wagsome.

 

+3 letters: bagworms, gapeworm, gownsman, miaowing, womaning.

 

+4 letters: angleworm, gapeworms, marrowing, warmonger.

 

+5 letters: angleworms, longbowman, snowmaking, warmongers, womanising, womanizing, workingman.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gamow


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

47 61 6D 6F 77

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)

01000111 01100001 01101101 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#109 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 006D 006F 0077

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

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

4167798189

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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