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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | IPA International Phonetic Alphabet. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IPA."
| 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 |
IPA | English | International Pediatric Association | N/A |
IPA | French | Pourcentage de perte auditive | Medicine, Physics |
IPA | German | Isopropylalkohol | Chemical Industry |
IPA | Portuguese | índice de perda auditiva | Medicine, Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: IPA |
| Specialty definitions using "IPA": International Phonetic Alphabet ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "IPA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Aymara (aunt). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Political Rights | Lesotho | In February the IPA and the Parliament finally agreed to a mixed proportional electoral arrangement that was enacted by the required two-thirds majority in both houses of Parliament. (references) |
Lesotho | Negotiations under SADC supervision resulted in the December 1998 establishment of the Interim Political Authority (IPA) with a mandate to prepare for new elections within 18 months (i.e., during the first half of 2000); however, the IPA made little progress in meeting its objectives. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "IPA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "IPA" is used about 12 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) | 58.33% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 41.67% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | 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. |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "IPA": lipa, nipa. (additional references) | |
Words containing "IPA": amphipathic, anticipant, anticipants, anticipatable, anticipate, anticipated, anticipates, anticipating, anticipation, anticipations, anticipator, anticipators, anticipatory, antipapal, antiparallel, antiparasitic, antiparasitics, antiparticle, antiparticles, antiparty, antipasti, antipasto, antipastos, antipathetic, antipathetically, antipathies, antipathy, bipack, bipacks, biparental, biparentally, biparous, biparted, bipartisan, bipartisanism, bipartisanisms, bipartisanship, bipartisanships, bipartite, bipartitely, bipartition, bipartitions, biparty, calipash, calipashes, constipate, constipated, constipates, constipating, constipation, constipations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-p" | |
-1 letter: ai, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-p" | |
+1 letter: lipa, nipa, padi, paid, paik, pail, pain, pair, pial, pian, pias, pica, pika, pima, pina, pita. | |
+2 letters: aphid, aphis, apian, aping, apish, apsis, aspic, aspis, atrip, campi, carpi, inapt, lapin, lapis, limpa, milpa, nipas, okapi, padis, padri, paiks, pails, pains, paint, pairs, paisa, paise, palpi, panic, pappi, pardi, paris, patin, patio, pavid, pavin, pavis, phial, piano, pians, pibal, pical, picas, pieta, pikas, pilaf, pilar, pilau, pilaw, pilea, pimas, pinas, pinna, pinta, pipal, pitas, pizza, plaid, plain, plait, plica, podia, prima, psoai, rapid, sapid, sepia, spahi, spail, spait, spica, tapir, tapis, vapid. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 50 41 |
| 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)01001001 01010000 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I P A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0050 0041 |
| 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)435035 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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