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MICROSPHERES

Specialty Definition: MICROSPHERES

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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.

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Crosswords: MICROSPHERES

Specialty definitions using "MICROSPHERES": Drug CarriersImmunomagnetic SeparationPolyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate. (references)

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Commercial Usage: MICROSPHERES

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References

  • The World Market for Glass Beads and Microspheres Less Than 1 mm Including Imitation Pearls and Precious Stones, Glass Eyes (Not Prosthetic), Ornaments of Lamp-Worked Glass, and Glass Microspheres Less Than 1 mm: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Microspheres and Drug Therapy: Pharmaceutical, Immunological and Medical Aspects (reference)

  • Microspheres and Regional Cancer Therapy (reference)

  • Polymeric Nanoparticles and Microspheres (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: MICROSPHERES

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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.

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Usage Frequency: MICROSPHERES

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)100%4175,879

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: MICROSPHERES

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

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.

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Modern Translation: MICROSPHERES

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

   

Portuguese

  

microsferas. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

microesferas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MICROSPHERES

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.

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INDEX

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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