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Date "HST" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references) |
"HST" is a common misspelling or typo for: hat, hit, host, hot, hut. |
| Domain | Definition |
Physics | Hubble Space Telescope. (references) |
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| 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 |
HST | English | Hubble Space Telescope | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: HST |
| Specialty definitions using "HST": asymmetrical modulation ♦ Hubble Space Telescope. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
HST has resolved, to an unprecedented detail of .1 arc second, a mysterious elliptical ring of ... Credit: NASA. | This is a composite HST image taken in visible light showing the temporal evolution of the ... Credit: NASA. | ||
![]() | Comparison of ground-based observation of the globular cluster M4 with an HST image showing white dwarfs. (Produced with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2, Hubble Space Telescope.). Credit: NASA. | ![]() | The Crab Nebula, M1, as imaged by HST and the Mount Palomar telescope. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Montage of images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot taken by HST between 1992 and 1999. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Jupiter's Great Red Spot as imaged by HST. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | False color images of Neptune taken by HST. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Pluto and its satellite Charon as taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Pluto as taken with ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Map of Pluto derived from data from ESA's Faint Object Camera on HST. Credit: NASA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "HST" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.06% of the time. "HST" is used about 31 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) | 58.06% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 22.58% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (common) | 16.13% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "HST": hst-1. | |
| 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 |
hst | 139 |
file hst | 9 |
gst hst | 6 |
hst training | 4 |
hst m16 pillar | 4 |
hst tax | 3 |
hst key project | 3 |
canada gst hst | 2 |
hst yahoo | 2 |
file hst open | 2 |
hst photo | 2 |
consign.com hst | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "HST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | oncogène hst-1 (hst-1 oncogene). (various references) | ||||
German | hst-1-Onkogen (hst-1 oncogene). (various references) | ||||
Italian | oncogene hst-1 (hst-1 oncogene). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | hstay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words containing "HST": birthstone, birthstones, earthstar, earthstars, hearthstone, hearthstones, latchstring, latchstrings, matchstick, matchsticks, notwithstanding, touchstone, touchstones, washstand, washstands, withstand, withstanding, withstands, withstood. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-s-t" | |
-1 letter: sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-s-t" | |
+1 letter: eths, hast, hats, hest, hets, hist, hits, host, hots, huts, shat, shit, shot, shut, sith, soth, this, thus, tosh, tush. | |
+2 letters: bahts, baths, beths, bhuts, chats, chest, chits, ethos, ghast, ghats, ghost, hadst, haets, hafts, halts, hants, harts, haste, hasty, hates, heats, hefts, heist, hents, hests, heths, hilts, hints, hists, hoist, holts, hoots, horst, hosta, hosts, hunts, hurst, hurts, khats, khets, kiths, laths, maths, meths, moths, musth, myths, oaths, paths, phots, phuts, piths, ruths, saith, shaft, shalt, sheet, shent, shift, shirt, shist, shits, shoat, shoot, short, shote, shots, shott, shout, shtik, shunt, shute, shuts, sight, sixth, sloth, smith, snath, sooth, soths, south, staph, stash, stich, swath, swith, synth, tachs, tahrs, teths, thaws, thens, these, thews, thins, those, thous, thuds, thugs, tophs, trash, tushy, whats, whets, whist, whits. | |
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