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LEPTOTHRIX

Definitions: LEPTOTHRIX

LEPTOTHRIX

Noun

1. Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals.

2. A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Frequency of Internet Keywords: LEPTOTHRIX

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

  leptothrix

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LEPTOTHRIX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-o-p-r-t-t-x"

-2 letters: heliport, plottier.

-3 letters: exploit, hoplite, philter, philtre, plotter, poitrel, politer, pottier, thorite, tortile, triolet, triplet, triplex.

-4 letters: eolith, ephori, exhort, export, extort, heriot, hirple, hitter, holier, hotter, liroth, lither, litter, loiter, ophite, petrol, piolet, plexor, polite, pother, potter, pottle, prolix, protei, replot, thorpe, tilter, tiptoe, tither, toiler, toilet, tother, triple.

-5 letters: ephor, extol, helio.

 Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-o-p-r-t-t-x"
 

+5 letters: hydroxylapatite.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LEPTOTHRIX


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

4C 45 50 54 4F 54 48 52 49 58

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)

01001100 01000101 01010000 01010100 01001111 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#80 &#84 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#73 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0050 0054 004F 0054 0048 0052 0049 0058

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

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

46395054495442524358

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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