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Definition: PVA |
PVANoun1. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or adhesives. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Weather | Positive Vorticity Advection. Advection of higher values of vorticity into an area, which often is associated with upward motion (lifting) of the air. PVA typically is found in advance of disturbances aloft (i.e., shortwaves), and is a property which often enhances the potential for thunderstorm development. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
PVA | English | Population viability analysis | N/A |
PVA | German | Polyvinylacetat | Chemistry, Chemical Industry |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: PVASynonym: polyvinyl acetate (n). (additional references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "PVA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.12% of the time. "PVA" is used about 17 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 (singular) | 94.12% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
pva | 113 | kenton pva | 3 |
county kenton pva | 26 | county jefferson ky pva | 3 |
pva glue | 18 | 7 anthem pva | 3 |
county jefferson pva | 18 | county jefferson kentucky pva | 3 |
pva mop | 12 | county hamilton pva | 3 |
campbell county pva | 11 | pva adhesive | 3 |
pva sponge | 9 | boone county kentucky pva | 3 |
boone county pva | 8 | pva usatf | 3 |
louisville pva | 7 | ky pva | 2 |
kentucky pva | 7 | mop pva wilen | 2 |
bag pva | 6 | campbell county ky pva | 2 |
county fayette pva | 5 | cone pva | 2 |
ky louisville pva | 4 | fayette pva | 2 |
county pva warren | 4 | campbell county kentucky pva | 2 |
player pva | 4 | fiber pva | 2 |
pva solution | 4 | pva 10x | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-v" | |
-1 letter: pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-v" | |
+1 letter: pave, vamp. | |
+2 letters: parve, parvo, pavan, paved, paver, paves, pavid, pavin, pavis, peavy, vamps, vapid, vapor. | |
+3 letters: pareve, parvis, parvos, pavane, pavans, paveed, pavers, paving, pavins, pavior, pavise, peavey, repave, revamp, spavie, spavin, vamped, vamper, vapors, vapory, vapour. | |
+4 letters: approve, captive, deprave, impavid, overapt, overlap, overpay, ovipara, pahlavi, palaver, parvenu, parvise, passive, pavanes, pavings, paviors, paviour, paviser, pavises, pavlova, peaveys, peavies, peccavi, pervade, piasava, pivotal, pluvial, pluvian, preaver, precava, prevail, privacy, private, repaved, repaves, revamps, spavies, spaviet, spavins, unpaved, upheave, vampers, vamping, vampire, vampish, vanpool, vapidly, vapored, vaporer, vapours, vapoury. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 56 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010000 01010110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P V A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0056 0041 |
| 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)505635 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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