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Definition: Gay-Lussac |
Gay-LussacNoun1. French chemist and physicist who first isolated boron and who formulated the law describing the behavior of gases under constant pressure (1778-1850). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Gay-Lussac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references) |
Synonym: Gay-LussacSynonym: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Charles' law (physics), Gay-Lussac's law of volumes. |
Crosswords: Gay-Lussac |
| English words defined with "Gay-Lussac": Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Gay-Lussac": Gay-Lussac law. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Gay-Lussac": Gaylussite. (references) |
| "Gay-Lussac" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gay-Lussac" is used about 2 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 (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-l-s-s-u-y" | |
-2 letters: casuals, causals, galyacs. | |
-3 letters: casual, causal, classy, galyac, gayals, glassy. | |
-4 letters: acyls, algas, ascus, assay, asyla, casas, casus, cauls, clags, class, clays, galas, gassy, gauss, gayal, glass, gussy, lyssa, sagas, salsa, saucy, sauls, scags, scaly, slags, slays, slugs, yucas, yugas. | |
-5 letters: aals, acyl, agas, agly, alas, alga, cagy, casa, caul, cays, clag, clay, cuss, gala, gals, gays, guls, guys, lacs, lacy, lags, lass, lays, lugs, sacs, saga, sags, sagy, sals, saul, says, scag, slag, slay, slug, ugly, yuca, yuga. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-l-s-s-u-y" | |
+2 letters: sagaciously. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 61 79 2D 4C 75 73 73 61 63 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100001 01111001 00101101 01001100 01110101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G a y - L u s s a c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0061 0079 002D 004C 0075 0073 0073 0061 0063 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41679115468785856769 |
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