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PDAS

Specialty Definition: PDAS

DomainDefinition

Post & Telecom

Portable computer-based and often hand-held devices combining a wide range of functions, such as diary, address book, word processor, calculator, etc. and which may support radio-based links for data transmission and/or to local area networks. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: PDAS

Specialty definitions using "PDAS": GEOSInfrared Data AssociationPersonal Digital Assistant. (references)

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Commercial Usage: PDAS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Diagnosis Pro 5.0: The Ultimate Differential Diagnosis Assistant (CD-ROM for Windows and Windows CE Hand-Held Devices, PDAs, Individual Version) (reference)

  • Palm & Handspring PDAs for Visual Learners (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: PDAS

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The market for WAP applications applied to PDAs is also expected to see strong growth. (references)

Analyst predict that together mobile devices - phones and PDAs and Digital Television will soon overtake the PC as the preferred tool of Internet access. (references)

Economic History

Philippines

The Philippine market has become more aware of information technology from simple PCs to mobile phones to PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and to E-commerce. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: PDAS

"PDAS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "PDAS" is used about 7 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)57.14%4175,879
Noun (proper)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Modern Translation: PDAS

Language Translations for "PDAS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

personal digital assistant (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

personal digital assistants (personal digital assistants), PDA's (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

personal digital assistants (personal digital assistants), PDAs (personal digital assistants), muistikirjamikrot (personal digital assistants), kynämikrot (personal digital assistants), henkilökohtaiset digitaaliset apuvälineet (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

French

  

PDA(personal digital assistants), assistants numériques individuels. (various references)

   

German

  

Personal Digital Assistants (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Italian

  

assistenti digitali personali (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aspday

   

Portuguese

  

personal digital assistant (personal digital assistants), organizador pessoal (personal digital assistants), agenda digital (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

equipos digitales personales (personal digital assistants). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

personligt digitalt hjälpmedel (personal digital assistants). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PDAS

Derivations

Words containing "PDAS": slapdash, slapdashes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: PDAS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: daps, pads.

Words within the letters "a-d-p-s"

-1 letter: ads, asp, dap, pad, pas, sad, sap, spa.

-2 letters: ad, as, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-p-s"
 

+1 letter: apods, damps, dopas, padis, pards, sapid, spade, spado, spaed.

 

+2 letters: adapts, adepts, adopts, aphids, capsid, dipsas, drapes, gasped, hasped, lapsed, padles, padres, pagods, pandas, parsed, pashed, passed, pasted, paused, pedals, pesade, phased, plaids, pleads, posada, purdas, rapids, rasped, salpid, sapped, scaped, shaped, soaped, spaced, spaded, spader, spades, spadix, spared, sparid, spayed, spread.

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. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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