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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Nonionic surfactant mixtures varying in the number of repeating ethoxy (oxy-1,2-ethanediyl) groups. They are used as detergents, emulsifiers, wetting agents, defoaming agents, etc. Octoxynol-9, the compound with 9 repeating ethoxy groups, is a spermatocide. (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 |
octoxynol 9 | 5 |
octoxynol | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-n-o-o-o-t-x-y" | |
-3 letters: colony, tycoon. | |
-4 letters: cloot, colon, conto, cooly, cyton, loony, octyl, toyon. | |
-5 letters: clon, clot, cloy, colt, coly, cony, cool, coon, coot, loco, loon, loot, lynx, nolo, only, onto, onyx, tony, tool, toon, toyo. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 43 54 4F 58 59 4E 4F 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- -.-. - --- -..- -.--. -. --- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01000011 01010100 01001111 01011000 01011001 01001110 01001111 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O C T O X Y N O L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0043 0054 004F 0058 0059 004E 004F 004C |
| 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)493754495859484946 |
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