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Mussitation

Definition: Mussitation

Mussitation

Noun

1. A low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech.

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

Etymology: Mussitation \Mus`si*ta"tion\, noun. [Latin expression mussitatio suppression of the voice, from mussitare to be silent, to murmur.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Mussitation

Synonyms: murmur (n), murmuration (n), murmuring (n), mutter (n), muttering (n). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mussitation

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

mussitation

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

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Rhyming with "Mussitation"

Words rhyming with "mussitation" (pronounced 'Mus`si*ta"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Mussitation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-n-o-s-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: situations.

-2 letters: mutations, situation, titanisms, titaniums.

-3 letters: amitosis, animists, antismut, atomists, manitous, mastitis, mutation, ostinati, simonist, stasimon, stations, tinamous, titanism, titanium, titanous, tsunamis, tuitions.

-4 letters: amounts, animist, atomist, autisms, intimas, intuits, ioniums, isatins, issuant, manitos, manitou, manitus, mattins, minutia, mission, missout, missuit, mitosis, monists, mutants, muttons, nimious, outmans, outsins, outsits, saimins, sanious, santimi, santims.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-m-n-o-s-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: stimulations.

 

+2 letters: misquotations.

 

+3 letters: anticommunists, customizations, restimulations.

 

+4 letters: misattributions, miscomputations, misutilizations, poststimulation, radiostrontiums.

 

+5 letters: institutionalism, instrumentations, maldistributions, overstimulations, suboptimizations, underestimations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Mussitation


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

4D 75 73 73 69 74 61 74 69 6F 6E

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)

01001101 01110101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01110100 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#115 &#115 &#105 &#116 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0073 0073 0069 0074 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

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

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

4787858575866786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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