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HST

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.


Specialty Definition: HST

DomainDefinition

Physics

Hubble Space Telescope. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: HST

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

HST is a TLA, its meanings include:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "HST."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: HST

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

HST

EnglishHubble Space TelescopeN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: HST

Specialty definitions using "HST": asymmetrical modulationHubble Space Telescope. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HST

DomainTitle

Books

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

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Photo Album: HST

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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.

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Usage Frequency: HST

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)58.06%1882,615
Noun (proper)22.58%7133,076
Noun (common)16.13%5157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%31N/A

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

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Expression: HST

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "HST": hst-1.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HST

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

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.

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Modern Translation: HST

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: HST

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).

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Anagrams: HST

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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