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MSB

Definition: MSB

MSB

Noun

1. A state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: MSB

DomainDefinition

Computing

MSB Most Significant Bit. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: MSB

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MSB

EnglishMission Stowage BagN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: MSB

Synonym: mutual savings bank (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: MSB

Specialty definitions using "MSB": twos complement. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MSB

DomainTitle

References

  • MSB Financial, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • MSB International Plc: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MSB

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Mauritius

A registration certificate issued by the MSB is valid for two years and may be renewed. (references)

Mauritius

MSB is responsible for certifications, but exporters may use foreign certification bodies if requested by their clients overseas. (references)

Mauritius

The objective of the National Quality System Certification Scheme is to recognize companies that meet the requirements of MS ISO 9001, MS ISO 9002, MS ISO 9003, or MS ISO 9004. MSB is also planning to introduce MS ISO 14,000 for companies which put in place a sound environmental management system. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MSB

"MSB" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MSB" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: MSB

CountryNameCountryName
United Kingdom

MSB International Plc

USA

MSB Financial, Inc.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MSB

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

msb

180

direct msb

14

msb technology

6

book msb

3

msb txdps.state.tx.us

3

dac link msb

3

messenger msb

2

123rd msb

2

college msb

2

earth iniside msb

2

msb shse.ac.in

2

lsb msb

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

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Modern Translation: MSB

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

最上位の"ット (most significant bit). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

さいじょういの"ット (most significant bit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

msbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: MSB

Derivations

Words containing "MSB": gemsbok, gemsboks, gemsbuck, gemsbucks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: MSB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "b-m-s"
 

+1 letter: bams, bums, mibs, mobs.

 

+2 letters: abysm, ambos, balms, barms, beams, bemas, berms, besom, bimas, blams, bombs, booms, bosom, brims, bumfs, bumps, combs, dumbs, gambs, iambs, jambs, lambs, limbs, mabes, numbs, samba, sambo, sebum, tombs, umbos, wombs.

 

+3 letters: abamps, abmhos, abohms, abomas, abysms, albums, ambers, ambits, ambles, ambush, amebas, balsam, bedims, begums, bemist, bemuse, bermes, beseem, besmut, besoms, bimahs, bimbos, biomes, blames, blimps, blooms, blumes, bombes, bosoms, bosomy, breams, bromes, bromos, brooms, brumes, bumphs, busman, busmen, chimbs, climbs, combes, combos, coombs, crumbs, cubism, demobs, embars, embays, embeds, embers, embosk, emboss, embows, gambas, gambes, gombos, gumbos, iambus, imbeds, imbues, jambes, jumbos, limbas, limbos, limbus, mambas, mambos, maybes, mbiras, nimbus, obiism, ombers, ombres, plumbs, rhombs, rhumbs, rumbas, sambar, sambas, sambos, sambur, sebums, somber, sombre, subgum, submit, symbol, thumbs, umbels, umbers, umbles, umbras, zombis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MSB


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

4D 53 42

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

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

=

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)

01001101 01010011 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#83 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0053 0042

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

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

475336

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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