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Definition: Kirchhoff |
KirchhoffNoun1. German physicist who with Bunsen pioneered spectrum analysis and formulated two laws governing electric networks (1824-1887). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: KirchhoffSynonyms: G. R. Kirchhoff (n), Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Kirchhoff's law (physics), Kirchhoff's laws (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Kirchhoff |
| English words defined with "Kirchhoff": Bunsen ♦ G. R. Kirchhoff, Gustav Robert Kirchhoff ♦ Robert Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Kirchhoff": black body, blackbody ♦ Kirchhoff law, Kirchhoff's law of radiation. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Kirchhoff LV. American trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) - a tropical disease now in the United States. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Kirchhoff" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.43% of the time. "Kirchhoff" is used about 28 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) | 96.43% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.57% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 28 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Kirchhoff" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Kirchhoff | Last name | 300 | 25,454 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Kirchhoff": G. R. Kirchhoff ♦ Gustav Robert Kirchhoff. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Kirchhoff": Piola-kirchhoff. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
kirchhoff | 26 |
de kirchhoff leyes | 26 |
de kirchhoff ley | 15 |
de kirchhoff leis | 5 |
current kirchhoff law | 5 |
de kirchhoff ley leyes | 4 |
gustav kirchhoff | 3 |
gustav kirchhoff robert | 3 |
kirchhoff loop question | 2 |
kirchhoff law voltage | 2 |
crosse kirchhoff la wi | 2 |
kirchhoff law | 2 |
kirchhoff leyes | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Kirchhoff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | キリル文字 (Cyrillic character, kill, Kirin, quilt, quilting). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | キル'ホッフ . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irchhoffkay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-f-h-h-i-k-o-r" | |
-4 letters: chirk, chiro, choir, frock, hoick, ichor. | |
-5 letters: coff, coif, coir, corf, cork, fico, foci, fork, hick, hock, rich, rick, riff, rock. | |
| 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)4B 69 72 63 68 68 6F 66 66 |
| 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)01001011 01101001 01110010 01100011 01101000 01101000 01101111 01100110 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K i r c h h o f f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0069 0072 0063 0068 0068 006F 0066 0066 |
| 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)457584697474817272 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ" |
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