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Definitions: PENDENTIVE |
PENDENTIVENoun1. The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel. 2. The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. |
Etymology: Pendentive \Pen*den"tive\, noun. [French expression pendentif, from the Latin expression pendere to hang.]. (Websters 1913) |
| "PENDENTIVE" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PENDENTIVE" is used about 11 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
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 |
pendentive | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PENDENTIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Spanish | pechina. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PENDENTIVE": pendentives. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PENDENTIVE" (pronounced 'Pen*den"tive'): Abjunctive, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accretive, Active, Adductive, Adscriptive, Affective, Afflictive, Appetitive, Arbustive, Architective, Assumptive, Astrictive, Astructive, Attentive, Benedictive, Calefactive, Chylifactive, Circumscriptive, Circumspective, Coactive, Collative, Completive, Compunctive, Conceptive, Concretive, Conglutinative, Conjunctive, Contortive, Convective, Costive, Creative, Deceptive, Decretive, Defunctive, Depletive, Descriptive, Diffractive, Discerptive, Discretive, Distinctive, Distractive, Eductive, Elative, Electro-motive, Emotive, Ententive, Excalfactive, Excerptive. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-t-v" | |
-2 letters: eventide, invented. | |
-3 letters: dentine, evident, pendent, pentene. | |
-4 letters: deepen, dentin, devein, dipnet, endite, endive, envied, evened, evited, indene, indent, intend, invent, peened, peeved, peined, penned, pinene, pinned, tenpin, tinned, veined, vendee, venine, vented. | |
-5 letters: diene, event, evite, inept, inned, nieve, peeve, penne, penni, pined, teind, tepee, tepid, tined, venin, vined. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-i-n-n-p-t-v" | |
+1 letter: pendentives. | |
+2 letters: nondeceptive. | |
+5 letters: antidevelopment. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 4E 44 45 4E 54 49 56 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. . -. -.. . -. - .. ...- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P E N D E N T I V E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0045 004E 0044 0045 004E 0054 0049 0056 0045 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50394838394854435639 |
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