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HETEROCHRONY

Definition: HETEROCHRONY

HETEROCHRONY

Noun

1. In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence in the formation of organs or parts.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: HETEROCHRONY

English words defined with "HETEROCHRONY": Heterochronism. (references)

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Commercial Usage: HETEROCHRONY

DomainTitle

Books

  • Evolutionary Change and Heterochrony (reference)

  • Heterochrony in Evolution: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Topics in Geobiology, Vol 7) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HETEROCHRONY

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

heterochrony trilobites

2

heterochrony

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HETEROCHRONY

Language Translations for "HETEROCHRONY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

heterokronisme. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

heterochronie. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

heterokronia. (various references)

   

French

  

hétérochronie. (various references)

   

German

  

Heterochronie. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ετεροχρονία. (various references)

   

Italian

  

eterocronia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eterochronyhay

   

Spanish

  

heterocronía. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HETEROCHRONY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-h-n-o-o-r-r-t-y"

-4 letters: coherent, cryotron, erythron, retrench, torchere, trencher.

-5 letters: cheroot, coherer, coroner, coronet, crooner, ecotone, erector, heronry, honoree, honorer, horrent, norther, notcher, rectory, reentry, thereon, torchon, trochee.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-h-n-o-o-r-r-t-y"
 

+5 letters: dehydrochlorinate, perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HETEROCHRONY


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 45 54 45 52 4F 43 48 52 4F 4E 59

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    -    .    .-.    ---    -.-.    ....    .-.    ---    -.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000101 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001110 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#79 &#67 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0054 0045 0052 004F 0043 0048 0052 004F 004E 0059

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

423954395249374252494859

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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