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Definitions: INFIBULATION |
INFIBULATIONNoun1. The act of attaching a ring, clasp, or frame, to the genital organs in such a manner as to prevent copulation. 2. The act of clasping, or fastening, as with a buckle or padlock. |
Etymology: Infibulation \In*fib`u*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression infibulare, infibulatum, to clasp, buckle, or button together; prefix in- in fibula clasp, buckle: compare to the French expression infibulation.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Junction | Noun: junction; joining; Verb: joinder, union connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion, annexation, annexment; astriction, attachment, compagination, vincture, ligation, alligation; accouplement; marriage; (wedlock,); infibulation, inosculation, symphysis, anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation; meeting, reunion; assemblage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
These practices have been widely condemned by other cultures as barbaric and cruel.
See also: child sexual abuse
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Infibulation."
Crosswords: INFIBULATION |
| Specialty definitions using "INFIBULATION": Circumcision, Female. (references) |
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Children | Ethiopia | The maternal mortality rate is extremely high due, in part, to food taboos for pregnant women, poverty, early marriage, and birth complications related to FGM, especially infibulation. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | The Government neither arrested nor prosecuted any persons for violating the health law against infibulation. (references) |
Sudan | No form of FGM is illegal under the Criminal Code; however, the health law forbids doctors and midwives from performing infibulation. (references) | |
Women | Liberia | The most extreme form of FGM, infibulation, reportedly is not practiced. (references) |
Cameroon | It includes the most severe form of the abuse, infibulation, and usually is practiced on preadolescent girls. (references) | |
Djibouti | Many believe that the incidence of infibulation has decreased, although no systematic data were available on the problem. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "INFIBULATION" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "INFIBULATION" is used about 6 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) | 83.33% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | 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 |
infibulation | 80 |
infibulation male | 9 |
infibulation photo | 7 |
infibulation picture | 7 |
circumcision female infibulation | 4 |
female genital infibulation mutilation | 3 |
infibulation slave | 2 |
infibulation penile | 2 |
girl infibulation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "INFIBULATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | infibulation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | infibulatie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | infibulation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Infibulation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | αγκτηριασμός γεννητικών οργάνων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | infibulazione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infibulationay infibulação. (various references) infibulación. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "INFIBULATION": infibulations. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "INFIBULATION" (pronounced 'In*fib`u*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-u" | |
-3 letters: filiation, inflation. | |
-4 letters: ablution, abutilon, fountain, libation, lunation. | |
-5 letters: antiflu, antlion, bailout, boatful, botulin, butanol, fontina, inbuilt, initial, nautili, nitinol, outlain, tabouli, tinfoil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: infibulations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 4E 46 49 42 55 4C 41 54 49 4F 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. .. -... ..- .-.. .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01001110 01000110 01001001 01000010 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I N F I B U L A T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 004E 0046 0049 0042 0055 004C 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E |
| 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)434840433655463554434948 |
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