Hereditary

Definitions: Hereditary

Hereditary

Adjective

1. Tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features".

2. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition".

Date "hereditary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Hereditary

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Of, relating to, or denoting factors that can be transmitted genetically from one generation to another. Source: European Union. (references)
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Hereditary

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
HE	English	Hereditary elliptocytosis	Medicine
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Hereditary

Synonyms: ancestral (adj), familial (adj), genetic (adj), inherited (adj), patrimonial (adj), transmissible (adj), transmitted (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hereditary

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Effect	Adjective: owing to; resulting from; Verb: derivable from; due to; caused by dependent upon; derived from, evolved from; derivative; hereditary; telegonous.
Intrinsicality	Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hereditary

English words defined with "hereditary": Araucaria bidwillii, aristocracy ♦ beadle, bunya bunya, bunya bunya tree, Burggrave, burgrave ♦ caste, congenital, crowned head ♦ Darier's disease, Degenerationist, dumb, dynast, dysostosis multiplex, dystrophy ♦ Earl marshal of England, exclusive right ♦ family history ♦ gargoylism, Gentilitious, George Beadle, George Wells Beadle ♦ Hereditarily, hereditary cerebellar ataxia, hereditary condition, hereditary disease, hereditary pattern, heritage, Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease, Hurler's disease, Hurler's syndrome, hypobetalipoproteinemia ♦ Idioplasma, In chief, inborn, infantile amaurotic idiocy, inherent, inheritance, innate ♦ keratosis follicularis ♦ Legitimist, lipochondrodystrophy ♦ malignant hyperthermia, monarch, Murza, muscular dystrophy, mute ♦ nobility, noble ♦ otosclerosis ♦ patrician, Pelagian, perquisite, Pragmatic sanction, prerogative, privilege ♦ Sachs disease, shah, shogun, silent, sovereign ♦ Tay-Sachs, Tay-Sachs disease ♦ X-linked dominant inheritance, X-linked recessive inheritance. (references)

Specialty definitions using "hereditary": äußeres Ohr ♦ Acrodermatitis, alpha 1-Antitrypsin, Alport syndrome, Alport's syndrome, Amelogenesis Imperfecta, Aniridia, ANTHROPOLOGIST, PHYSICAL ♦ Basal Cell Nevus Syndrome ♦ Choreatic Disorders, Choroid Diseases, Chromosomes, Human, Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis, Complement 1 Inactivators, congenital cerebellar ataxia, Connective Tissue Diseases, Coproporphyrins, Corneal Dystrophies, Hereditary, cytoplasmic heredity, cytoplasmic inheritance ♦ Dermatitis, Atopic, drepanocyte ♦ Ectodermal Dysplasia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Elliptocytosis, Hereditary, essential lipoid histiocytosis, Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary, extra-nuclear inheritance, Eye Diseases, Hereditary ♦ familiar ataxia, fibrodysplasia hyperelastica ♦ Genes, Helminth, Genes, Insect, Genes, Plant, Genes, Viral, GUILLOTINE, gyrate atrophy of choroid and retina, gyrate atrophy of the chorioidea and retina ♦ Hamartoma Syndrome, Multiple, HANGMAN, hereditary annular dystrophy, Hereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases, hereditary elliptocytosis, hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy, hereditary nephropathy-deafness syndrome, hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer, hereditary spinal ataxia 2.Friedreich's disease, Hip Dysplasia, Canine, Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary ♦ Immunoglobulin Allotypes, Immunoglobulin Gm Allotypes, Immunoglobulin Inv Allotypes, Infant, Newborn, Diseases, irideremia ♦ Keratoderma, Palmoplantar, Knights Baronets ♦ Lambda-Prolog, Langer-Giedion Syndrome, lipoid spleno-hepatomegaly, Lynch syndrome, lysosomal disease ♦ Marie disease, Marie's cerebellar ataxia, Marie's disease, Meekeren-Ehlers-Danlos synddrome, Movement Disorders, Musician, Chief ♦ naevus, Neoplastic Syndromes, Hereditary, Nephritis, Hereditary, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Niemann-Pick disease 2.essential lipoid histiocytosis, Niemann-Pick's Disease, Nonne-Marie sydrome, Nonne-Milroy-Meige disease, Nonne-Milroy-Meige syndrome, Nut-brown Maid ♦ optimism ♦ pébrine, Pemphigus, Benign Familial, plasmatic heredity, Plasmids, Pseudohypoaldosteronism, Pyruvate Metabolism, Inborn Errors ♦ Retinal Dysplasia, Retinitis Pigmentosa ♦ sickle-cell, somatic effects, somatic effects of radiation, Spherocytosis, Hereditary ♦ tail, transgenic organism, trichothiodystrophy ♦ Wolfram Syndrome. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hereditary

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	A lady once asked famous painter and momma's boy James Whistler if he thought genius was hereditary. His answer was basically, 'I don't know. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) Unfortunately, that ability isn't hereditary. (Hands Across the Table; writing credit: Vi�a Delmar; Norman Krasna)
Movie/TV Titles	Hereditary Misfortune (2003)
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Commercial Usage: Hereditary

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	101 Uses for an Hereditary Peer (reference) Hereditary Genius (Classics in Psychology, 1855-1914) (reference) Hereditary Kidney Diseases (Contributions to Nephrology, V. 122.) (reference) Hereditary Madness: The Evolution of Psychiatric Genetic Thought (reference) Hereditary Society Blue Book 1998 (reference) (more book examples) (more periodical examples)
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Photo Album: Hereditary

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	Shows photo of Dr. E. C. MacDowell and associates at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Department of Genetics studying hereditary pattern of leukemia in 1935.Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		[Venereal diseases: Young child with the gummata (cranial) of hereditary syphilis].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Hereditary or Congenital Syphilis : Congential Syphilis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Hereditary or Congenital Syphilis : Congenital Syphilis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Hereditary or Congenital Syphilis : Hereditary Syphilis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Hereditary or Congenital Syphilis : Congential Syphilis.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Yes, I suppose it's hereditary -- my fishing : you see my great-grandfather was a whaling captain.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Familiar Quotations: Hereditary

Author	Quotation
Nabb	It is, indeed, a blessing, when the virtues of noble races are hereditary.
Plato	Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
Sir Walter Scott	Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Thomas Paine	Virtue is not hereditary.
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Historic Usage: Hereditary

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	An assembly of hereditary nobility. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Use in Literature: Hereditary

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	She believes in hereditary right, and in the hierarchy.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Hereditary

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Wilson's disease is hereditary. (references)
		Some of these syndromes appear to be hereditary. (references)
		Hemophilia is the oldest known hereditary bleeding disorder. (references)
Children	Korea	Although the law bans fetal testing except when a woman's life is in danger, when a hereditary disease would be transmitted, or in cases of rape or incest, such testing and the subsequent termination of pregnancies with female fetuses frequently occur. (references)
Civil Liberties	Brunei	The Government reinforces the legitimacy of the hereditary monarchy and the observance of traditional and Islamic values by reasserting a national ideology known as the Malayhu Islam Beraja (MIB) or "Malay Muslim monarchy." The Government in 1993 participated in issuing the Kuala Lumpur Declaration, which affirms the right of all persons to a wide range of human rights, including freedom of religion. (references)
Discrimination	Tonga	Social, cultural, and economic facilities are available to all citizens regardless of race or religion; however, members of the hereditary nobility have substantial advantages, including control over most land and a generally privileged status. (references)
Economic History	Kuwait	Type: Constitutional Hereditary Amirate. (references)
	Norway	Type: Hereditary constitutional monarchy. (references)
	Belgium	Belgium is an hereditary constitutional monarchy. (references)
Human Rights	Tuvalu	Local hereditary elders exercise considerable traditional authority--including the right to inflict corporal punishment for infringing customary rules, which can be at odds with the national law; however, corporal punishment is seldom invoked. (references)
	Japan	There were no new developments in the longstanding effort by groups representing women and persons with disabilities to obtain a government investigation, a formal apology, and compensation in the case of the several thousand women with disabilities who were sterilized without their consent between 1949-92. A law that the Government revoked in 1996 permitted doctors, after they had received the approval of committees appointed by local governments, to sterilize persons with mental or physical disabilities or certain hereditary diseases without consent. (references)
Minorities	Tonga	The freeze on issuing new licenses subsequently was lifted, but the hereditary noble's ban (which includes Tongans from outside the district as well) continues at year's end. (references)
Political Economy	Norway	Norway is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. (references)
	Bahrain	The Constitution confirms the Amir as hereditary ruler. (references)
	Bhutan	Bhutan is ruled by a hereditary monarch, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who governs with the support of a National Assembly and a Council of Ministers. (references)
Political Rights	Liechtenstein	The monarchy is hereditary in the male line. (references)
	Swaziland	Local custom mandates that chieftaincy is hereditary. (references)
	Tonga	The King and 33 hereditary nobles dominate political life. (references)
Worker Rights	Mali	For example, there is a hereditary service relationship between members of the Bellah ethnic group and other Tuareg populations. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past.
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Speeches: Hereditary

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The treaty with Austria is opening to us an important trade with the hereditary dominions of the Emperor, the value of which has been hitherto little known, and of course not sufficiently appreciated.
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Usage Frequency: Hereditary

"Hereditary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hereditary" is used about 467 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	467	12,638

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

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Expression: Hereditary

Expressions using "hereditary": hereditary annular dystrophy ♦ Hereditary Central Nervous System Demyelinating Diseases ♦ hereditary cerebellar ataxia ♦ hereditary condition ♦ hereditary disease ♦ hereditary elliptocytosis ♦ hereditary factor ♦ hereditary kingdom ♦ Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies ♦ hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy ♦ hereditary mutation ♦ hereditary nobility ♦ hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer ♦ hereditary pattern ♦ hereditary prince ♦ Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathies ♦ hereditary spinal ataxia 2.Friedreich's disease. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "hereditary": non-hereditary.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hereditary

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
hereditary disease	29
hereditary angioedema	27
hereditary spherocytosis	18
hereditary	15
hereditary spastic paraplegia	11
hereditary hemochromatosis	11
hereditary neuropathy	9
hereditary baldness	8
is alcoholism hereditary	7
hereditary hair loss	7
alzheimers hereditary	6
diabetes hereditary	6
depression hereditary	6
hereditary cancer	5
hereditary multiple sclerosis	5
ataxia hereditary	5
hereditary fructose intolerance	5
disease foundation hereditary	4
angiodema hereditary	4
hereditary trait	4
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Modern Translations: Hereditary

Language		Translations for "hereditary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trashëgues (inheritor, legatee, successor), trashëgimor (ancestral, lineal, patrimonial), i trashëgueshëm (heritable, inheritable), i trashëguar (inherited, patrimonial). (various references)

Arabic		‏موروث (ancestral, inherited, patrimonial, transmitted), ‏وراثي (genetic, genetical, inborn), ‏ذو لقب. (various references)

Bulgarian		фамилен (ancestral, family, lineal), традиционен (academic, academical, classic, conservative, set, traditional), наследствен (ancestral, heritable, inbred, inheritable), потомствен (ancestral). (various references)

Chinese		遺傳 , 遗� 性 (Hereditarily). (various references)

Czech		dìdièný (ancestral, heritable, inheritable, inherited). (various references)

Danish		nedarvet (heritable), medfødt (congenital, connate, heritable, innate), arvelig (heritable, inheritable), arv (heredity, heritage, inheritance, succession). (various references)

Dutch		hereditarius (heritable), hereditair (heritable), voor vererving vatbaar (inheritable), overerfelijk (heritable), overerfelĳk, overerfelýk, erfmassa (inheritance), erfelijk (connatal, connate, heritable, inheritable), erfelĳk, erfelýk, door middel van genen overdraagbaar op nakomelingsschap (heritable). (various references)

Esperanto		hereda. (various references)

Farsi		ارثی (Congenital). (various references)

Finnish		perinnöllinen (heritable, inheritable, inheritance, inherited). (various references)

French		héréditaire (hereditarily, heritable). (various references)

Frisian		erflik. (various references)

German		erblich (blanched, hereditarily, heritable, inheritable), vererbbar (hereditable, heritable, inheritable). (various references)

Greek		κληρονομικός (heritable). (various references)

Hebrew		תורשתי (atavistic, genetic, genetical). (various references)

Hungarian		örökletes (inheritable), öröklött. (various references)

Indonesian		turun temurun. (various references)

Italian		ereditario (hereditarily, heritable, inheritable, innate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		遺伝性 (inheritable, inheritable character, inherited), 祖先伝来 , 伝来 (ancestral, handed down, imported, transmitted), 先天的 (a priori, congenital, inborn, inherent, innate), 先天性 , 代々 (for generations, generation after generation), 代代 (for generations, generation after generation), 世伝 , 世々 (for generations, generation after generation), 世世 (for generations, generation after generation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		そせ�"で�"らい, で�"らい (ancestral, handed down, imported, transmitted), せいで�" (authentic biography, main temple, state chamber, tradition), せ�"て�"せい, せ�"て�"てき (a priori, congenital, inborn, inherent, innate), いで�"せい (inheritable, inheritable character, inherited), よよ (every evening, for generations, generation after generation, night after night), � い� い (bitter orange, for generations, generation after generation, main telephone number). (various references)

Korean		� � � (genetic, genetical, oilfield). (various references)

Manx		eiraghtagh, cooie (applicable, apt, befit, competent, congruent, decent, decorous, opportune, suitable, timely). (various references)

Norwegian		arvelig. (various references)

Pig Latin		ereditaryhay

Portuguese		hereditário (ancestral, descendable, heredity, heritable, inheritable, inheritance, inheritor), transmissível por herança (inheritable), perto (aboard, about, anigh, by, close, hard, near, nearby, next door, nigh, on), património hereditário (germ plasm, inheritance). (various references)

Romanian		ereditar (inborn, inheritable, innate, lineal, patrimonial). (various references)

Russian		наследственный (ancestral, heritable, inheritable, patrimonial). (various references)

Scottish		dùthchasach (native, of one's native), dùth (natural.). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		hereditaran, nasledan (heritable, inheritable). (various references)

Spanish		hereditario (heritable, inheritable). (various references)

Swedish		ärftlig (heritable, inheritable). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งเป็นกรรมพันธุ์. (various references)

Turkish		kalıtsal (heritable, inheritable), intikal eden, ırsi. (various references)

Ukranian		спадко�"мний (heritable, inheritable, patrimonial), спадковий (ancestral, heritable, inheritable, lineal, original), традиційний (academic, classical, iconic, old-line, traditional). (various references)

Vietnamese		di truyền, cha truyền con nối. (various references)

Welsh		etifeddol. (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Hereditary

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	hereditario, hereditarium. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Hereditary

Derivations
	Words ending with "hereditary": nonhereditary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Hereditary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: herditary, heredatary, hereditaire. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hereditary"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "hereditary" (pronounced here"dute'rē)
5	-u t e' r ē	budgetary, cemetery, cometary, depositary, dietary, dignitary, interplanetary, military, monetary, nonmilitary, paramilitary, pituitary, planetary, proprietary, salutary, sanitary, secretary, solitary, tributary, undersecretary, unitary, unsanitary.
4	-t e' r ē	commentary, dysentery, fragmentary, involuntary, momentary, monastery, sedentary.
3	-e' r ē	actuary, adversary, ancillary, apothecary, arbitrary, aviary, beneficiary, bicentenary, Blackberry, blueberry, capillary, cardiopulmonary, Cassowary, cautionary, centenary, commissary, concessionary, confectionary, confectionery, Constabulary, contemporary, corollary, coronary, counterrevolutionary, cranberry, culinary, customary, deflationary, Dewberry, dictionary, disciplinary, discretionary, disinflationary, diversionary, Dogberry, dromedary, emissary, epistolary, estuary, evolutionary, exclusionary, expansionary, expeditionary, extraordinary, fiduciary, formulary, functionary, funerary, gooseberry, hackberry, honorary, Huckleberry, illusionary, imaginary, inflationary, interdisciplinary, itinerary, judiciary, lapidary, legendary, library, literary, luminary, mercenary, missionary, mortuary, mulberry, necessary, noninflationary, obituary, ordinary, pecuniary, preliminary, primary, probationary, pulmonary, quaternary, raspberry, reactionary, recessionary, revolutionary, Rosemary, sanctuary, savagery, secondary, semilegendary, seminary, stationary, stationery, statuary, strawberry, subsidiary, temporary, Tilbury, topiary, unnecessary, urinary, veterinary, visionary, vocabulary.
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Anagrams: Hereditary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: rehydrate, threadier.
	-2 letters: ditherer, earthier, heartier, heredity, rethread, threader, trihedra.
	-3 letters: adherer, airthed, dietary, diether, dithery, earthed, hardier, harried, hayride, headier, hearted, herried, hydrate, hydriae, readier, reheard, rehired, retiary, retired, retread, retried, tardier, tarried, tearier, thready, tireder, treader.
	-4 letters: adhere, aeried, aerier, aether, airted, arider, artery, artier, darter, dearer, dearie, dearth, deathy, derate, dieter, dither, dreary, earthy, eatery, either, haired, harder, hatred, header, hearer, hearty, heated, heater, heired, herder, hereat, hydrae, hydria, ideate, irater, raider, rarity, rather, reader, reared, redate, redear, rediae, reedit, rehear, reheat, rehire, reread, retard, retear, retied, retire, ritard, tarred, teared, tearer, terrae, thread, tiered, tirade, trader, yirred.
	-5 letters: aerie, aider, aired, airer, airth, arete, dairy, darer, dater, deair, deary, death, deity, derat, deray, derry, deter, diary, direr, dirty, drear, drier, dryer, eared, earth, eater, eider, erred, ether, eyrie, eyrir, hairy, hardy, hared, harry, hated, hater, hayed, hayer, heady, heard, heart, heder, herry, hider, hired, hirer, hydra, irade, irate, ither, rared, rated, rater, rathe, rayed, ready, redia, redry, redye, reedy, retia, retie, retry, rhyta, rider, tardy, tared, tarre, tarry, teary, terai, terra, terry, their, there, third, three, tired, trade, tread, treed, triad, tried, trier, tyred, yaird, yarer, yirth.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-h-i-r-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: hereditarily.
	+3 letters: nonhereditary.
	+4 letters: heartrendingly, hydrotherapies.
	+5 letters: radiotelegraphy.
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