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Definition: PHOSPHIDE |
PHOSPHIDENoun1. A binary compound of phosphorus. |
"PHOSPHIDE" is a common misspelling or typo for: phosphate, phosphates. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Metallurgy | Term often used in the foundry industry to designate an additional alloy intended to introduce phosphorus into an alloy(Eg. :copper-phosphide, iron-phosphide). Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A compound that is a combination of phosphorus with a metal; e.g.,schreibersite, (Fe,Ni)3 P . (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PHOSPHIDE |
| English words defined with "PHOSPHIDE": Phosphor-bronze, Phosphuret. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PHOSPHIDE": gallium phosphide ♦ indium phosphide. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "PHOSPHIDE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (phosphide). |
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| "PHOSPHIDE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHOSPHIDE" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "PHOSPHIDE": gallium phosphide ♦ hydrogen phosphide ♦ indium phosphide. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "PHOSPHIDE": aluminium-phosphide, aluminum-phosphide, indium-phosphide. | |
| 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 |
indium phosphide | 45 |
both expansion indium match phosphide silicon thermal | 21 |
phosphide zinc | 10 |
aluminum phosphide | 7 |
phosphide | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PHOSPHIDE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الفوسفيد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фосфид. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 磷化物. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | indium-fosfid (indium phosphide), galliumfosfid (gallium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | indiumfosfide (indium phosphide), galliumfosfide (gallium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | indiumfosfidi (indium phosphide), galliumfosfidi (gallium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | phosphide. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Indiumphosphid (indium phosphide), Galliumphosphid (gallium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φωσφορούχο γάλλιο (gallium phosphide), φωσφίδιο του ινδίου (indium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | זרחת (phosphate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | foszfid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | fosfuro d'indio (indium phosphide), fosfuro di gallio (gallium phosphide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | osphidephay fosforeto de gálio (gallium phosphide), fosforeto de índio (indium phosphide). (various references) fosfurã. (various references) фосфид. (various references) fosfuro de indio (indium phosphide), fosfuro de galio (gallium phosphide). (various references) fosfid. (various references) fosfat bileşiği. (various references) фосфід. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "PHOSPHIDE": phosphides. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PHOSPHIDE" (pronounced 'Phos"phide'): Bisulphide, Monosulphide, Oxysulphide, Persulphide, Polysulphide, Protosulphide, Sesquisulphide, Subsulphide, sulphide. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-h-i-o-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: phosphid. | |
-2 letters: shipped, shopped. | |
-3 letters: ephods, hipped, hippos, hoised, hopped, pished, poised, popish, popsie, shoppe, sipped, sopped. | |
-4 letters: dipso, dopes, eidos, ephod, hides, hippo, hoise, hoped, hopes, hosed, pepos, piped, pipes, poise, popes, posed, shied, shoed, siped, spied, spode. | |
-5 letters: dies, dips, dish, does, dope, dose, edhs, epos, hehs, hide, hied, hies, hips, hods, hoed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-h-i-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: phosphides. | |
+2 letters: diphosphate, phosphatide. | |
+3 letters: diphosphates, horsewhipped, phosphatides, phosphatized. | |
+4 letters: philosophised, philosophized. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 4F 53 50 48 49 44 45 |
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