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Definition: Neumann |
NeumannNoun1. United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Neumann" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
Synonym: NeumannSynonym: von Neumann (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Neumann |
| English words defined with "Neumann": John von Neumann ♦ Otto Neumann Sverdrup ♦ von Neumann, von Neumann machine. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Neumann": Church integer ♦ Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer ♦ fetch-execute cycle, FFP, Fifth Generation Computer System, FP ♦ Geary's contiguity ratio ♦ Neumann lamellae, NON-VON computer ♦ UBASIC ♦ von Neumann integer, von Neumann ordinal, von Neumann spike, von Neumann, John ♦ Wafe. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Neumann" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (Neumann). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Isidor Neumann.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Edw. Neumann, Broadway Market, Detroit, Mich.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Neumann" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neumann" is used about 86 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 (proper) | 100% | 86 | 35,638 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Neumann" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Neumann | Last name | 5,000 | 2,639 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "Neumann": John von Neumann ♦ Otto Neumann Sverdrup ♦ von Neumann ♦ von Neumann integer ♦ von Neumann machine ♦ von Neumann ordinal. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "Neumann": Buber-neumann. | |
| 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 |
nicole neumann | 184 |
neumann | 98 |
home neumann | 97 |
neumann college | 97 |
john von neumann | 47 |
st john neumann | 28 |
von neumann | 25 |
geraldine neumann | 22 |
neumann microphone | 20 |
neumann gloves | 11 |
neumann u87 | 10 |
therese neumann | 10 |
neumann football gloves | 8 |
balthasar neumann | 8 |
john neumann | 7 |
liselotte neumann | 7 |
neumann u47 | 7 |
saint john neumann | 6 |
jutta neumann | 6 |
camp neumann | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Neumann"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | neumann. (various references) | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ノーベル平å'Œè³ž (no mark, no more, no work no pay, NOAA, Nobel peace prize, noise, noise reduction, noiseless, noisiness, noisy, noisy minority, no-paper society, normal, normal tape, normalize, no-run stockings). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ノイマン . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eumannnay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Neumann" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Enzmann, Keamanan, Keumann, Naiman, naumanni, neeman, Neemrana, Neman, Nequam, Netman, Neuman, Neumanns, Nieman, Niemann, Nijman, Niuean, noumenon, Nyoman, Reumann. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-n-n-u" | |
-2 letters: numen, unman. | |
-3 letters: amen, mane, maun, mean, menu, name, nema, neum. | |
-4 letters: amu, ane, eau, emu, mae, man, men, mun, nae, nam, nan, nun. | |
-5 letters: ae, am, an, em, en, ma, me, mu, na, ne, nu, um, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: unmanned. | |
+2 letters: annulment, mannequin, unmeaning. | |
+3 letters: annulments, mannequins, unmannered, unmannerly. | |
+4 letters: inhumanness, mundaneness, nonargument, undemanding, undermanned, unmanliness. | |
+5 letters: announcement, nonarguments, nonnumerical, unmanneredly, unornamented. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 75 6D 61 6E 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . ..- -- .- -. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e u m a n n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 006D 0061 006E 006E |
| 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)48718779678080 |
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