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Definition: Minkowski |
MinkowskiNoun1. German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Minkowski" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonym: MinkowskiSynonym: Hermann Minkowski (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: Minkowski-Chauffard syndrome (medicine), Minkowski's inequality (mathematics, statistics), Naunyn-Minkowski method (medicine). |
Crosswords: Minkowski |
| English words defined with "Minkowski": Hermann Minkowski. (references) |
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| "Minkowski" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Minkowski" is used about 20 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Noun (proper) | 15% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (plural) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Minkowski": Hermann Minkowski. Additional references. | |
| 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 |
minkowski | 10 |
chauffard minkowski | 3 |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sphaerocytosis hereditaria. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-k-k-m-n-o-s-w" | |
-2 letters: misknow. | |
-4 letters: ikons, imino, kinks, kinos, kiosk, kiwis, knows, konks, minis, minks, monks, oinks, skimo, skink, swink, winks, winos, wonks. | |
-5 letters: ikon, inks, ions, iwis, kink, kino, kins, kiwi, know, kois, konk, mini, mink, miso, monk, mons, mosk, mown, mows, nims, nisi, noms, nows, oink, owns, sink, skim, skin, snow, sown, swim, wink. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 69 6E 6B 6F 77 73 6B 69 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101001 01101110 01101011 01101111 01110111 01110011 01101011 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M i n k o w s k i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0069 006E 006B 006F 0077 0073 006B 0069 |
| 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)477580778189857775 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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