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Definition: H-bomb |
H-bombNoun1. A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
H-Bomb | English | Hydrogen Bomb | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: H-bomb |
| Non-English Usage: "H-bomb" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (h bomb). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | H-Bomb (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | H bomb? Building an H-bomb gives us powerful insurance that an enemy will not use one against us / drawings by Ray Pioch.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | H-Bomb hideaway.Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "H-bomb" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 59.38% of the time. "H-bomb" is used about 32 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) | 59.38% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 12.5% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 32 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "H-bomb"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | H-Bombe (H bomb, hydrogen bomb), Wasserstoffbombe (H bomb, hydrogen bomb). (various references) | |
Portuguese | H-bomba. (various references) | |
Russian | водородная бомба (h bomb, hydrogen bomb, superbomb, thermonuclear bomb). (various references) | |
Swedish | vätebomb (fusion bomb, H bomb, hydrogen bomb). (various references) | |
Thai | ระเบิ"ไฮโ"รเจน (hydrogen bomb). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bom khinh khí (hydrogen bomb, superbomb), bom hyddro. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-h-m-o" | |
-1 letter: bomb. | |
-2 letters: bob, hob, mho, mob, ohm. | |
-3 letters: bo, hm, ho, mo, oh, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-h-m-o" | |
+2 letters: mobbish. | |
+4 letters: beachcomb, bombshell, bombsight. | |
+5 letters: beachcombs, bombshells, bombsights. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 2D 62 6F 6D 62 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 00101101 01100010 01101111 01101101 01100010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H - b o m b |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 002D 0062 006F 006D 0062 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)421568817968 |
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