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| Domain | Definition |
Industry | Tiny spherical glass grains used for the reflectorisation of highway markings. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Small uniformly-sized spherical particles frequently labeled with radioisotopes or various reagents acting as tags or markers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MICROSPHERES |
| Specialty definitions using "MICROSPHERES": Drug Carriers ♦ Immunomagnetic Separation ♦ Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
References | |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The periodontist puts the microspheres into the pockets after scaling and root planing. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MICROSPHERES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MICROSPHERES" 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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 |
microspheres | 24 |
ceramic microspheres | 6 |
glass microspheres | 4 |
hollow microspheres | 4 |
glass hollow microspheres | 3 |
glass hollow microspheres production | 2 |
microspheres proteinoid | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "MICROSPHERES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | reflekskugler. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bolletjes voor reflectie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | microphères. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Mikrokugeln. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | μικροσφαιρίδια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | granuli sferici ballotines, granelli (granules). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icrospheresmay microsferas. (various references) microesferas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: mesospheric, microsphere. | |
-3 letters: cirrhoses, coheiress, comprises, prescores, primroses, promisees, promisers, reimposes, reprocess, scrimpers, shrimpers, simperers, sorceries. | |
-4 letters: cheerios, chemises, cherries, chimeres, chirpers, chompers, chrisoms, coherers, compeers, comperes, compress, comprise, crimpers, crispers, crosiers, echoisms, emperors, emprises, episomes, heroisms, hospices, imposers, impreses, moperies, morrises, orchises, perchers, perishes, phimoses, piercers, preciser, precises, premiers, premises, premorse, prescore. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-m-o-p-r-r-s-s" | |
+2 letters: psychrometries. | |
+4 letters: petrochemistries. | |
+5 letters: spectroheliograms. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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