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Gay-Lussac

Definition: Gay-Lussac

Gay-Lussac

Noun

1. 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-Lussac

Synonym: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (n). (additional references)
Synonyms by domain: Charles' law (physics), Gay-Lussac's law of volumes.

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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)

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Usage Frequency: Gay-Lussac

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

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

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Anagrams: Gay-Lussac

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Gay-Lussac


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

47 61 79 2D 4C 75 73 73 61 63

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01111001 00101101 01001100 01110101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#121 &#45 &#76 &#117 &#115 &#115 &#97 &#99

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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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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