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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Letter name specifying the dimensions of core, core barrels, and casing in the H-size and X-series wireline diamond drilling system having a core diameter of 76.2 mm and a hole diameter of 99.2 mm. The HX designation for coring bits has been replaced by the HW designation. Syn:HW. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
hx | Dutch | Hypoxantine | Chemistry |
HX | English | Hypoxanthine | Chemistry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: HX |
| Specialty definitions using "HX": salts. (references) |
| "HX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "HX" is used about 5 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 (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hx | 58 | 1996 doo hx sea | 5 |
doo hx sea | 48 | 6000 hx prioris | 5 |
hx magazine | 40 | 1998 civic honda hx | 4 |
honda civic hx | 23 | michelin pilot hx | 4 |
hx jvc z30 | 15 | callaway hx golf ball | 3 |
1997 civic honda hx | 10 | honda hx | 3 |
jvc hx z3 | 10 | maxon 49 hx | 3 |
hx z30 | 10 | hx golf ball | 3 |
civic hx | 10 | 1 hx yamaha | 3 |
1995 doo hx sea | 7 | hx organ yamaha | 3 |
clarion hx d10 | 7 | civic honda hx review | 3 |
callaway hx | 7 | hx jycl.com | 3 |
hx z10 | 6 | 40 hx turbo | 2 |
97 civic honda hx | 5 | 96 doo hx sea | 2 |
hx z3 | 5 | callaway hx tour | 2 |
doo hx part sea | 5 | 1999 civic honda hx | 2 |
callaway hx red | 5 | hx imagepoint | 2 |
hx jvc z10 | 5 | 2000 civic honda hx | 2 |
hx d10 | 5 | 4 hx | 2 |
jvc hx z1 | 5 | hx window.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "h-x" | |
+1 letter: hex. | |
+2 letters: hoax. | |
+3 letters: hapax, helix, hexad, hexed, hexer, hexes, hexyl, hyrax, phlox, sixth. | |
+4 letters: ethoxy, exarch, exhale, exhort, exhume, hallux, hatbox, hexade, hexads, hexane, hexers, hexing, hexone, hexose, hexyls, hoaxed, hoaxer, hoaxes, hotbox, phenix, sixths, sphinx, thorax. | |
+5 letters: anthrax, asphyxy, boxfish, boxhaul, cachexy, cashbox, chamoix, ethoxyl, exarchs, exarchy, exhaled, exhales, exhaust, exhibit, exhorts, exhumed, exhumer, exhumes, foxfish, foxhole, foxhunt, hapaxes, helixes, hellbox, hexades, hexadic, hexagon, hexanes, hexapla, hexapod, hexerei, hexones, hexosan, hexoses, hoaxers, hoaxing, homosex, hydroxy, hypoxia, hypoxic, hyraxes, methoxy, minxish, narthex, oxheart, oxyphil, panchax, pemphix, phalanx, pharynx, phenoxy, phloxes, phoenix, pixyish, saxhorn, sixthly, xanthan, xanthic, xanthin, xerarch, xiphoid. | |
| 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 58 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... -..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01011000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H X |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0058 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4258 |
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