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PHOTOPERIOD

Specialty Definition: PHOTOPERIOD

DomainDefinition

Health

The time period of daily exposure that an organism receives from daylight or artificial light. It is believed that photoperiodic responses may affect the control of energy balance and thermoregulation. (references)

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

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Commercial Usage: PHOTOPERIOD

DomainTitle

Books

  • Photoperiod and Testicular Function in Phodopus Sungorus (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: PHOTOPERIOD

"PHOTOPERIOD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHOTOPERIOD" is used about 9 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 (singular)100%9117,287

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHOTOPERIOD

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

photoperiod

4

par photoperiod

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PHOTOPERIOD

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

Danish

  

fotoperiode (day-length period). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

fotoperiode. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valojakso, fotoperiodi. (various references)

   

French

  

photopériode. (various references)

   

German

  

Fotoperiode | Photoperiode. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωτοπερίοδος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

fotoperiodo. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otoperiodphay

   

Portuguese

  

fotoperíodo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fotoperiodo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fotoperiod, belysningstid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PHOTOPERIOD

Derivations

Words beginning with "PHOTOPERIOD": photoperiodic, photoperiodically, photoperiodism, photoperiodisms, photoperiods. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PHOTOPERIOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-o-p-p-r-t"

-3 letters: iodophor, protopod, pteropod, theropod, trophied.

-4 letters: dhootie, diopter, dioptre, hoodier, hootier, hoppier, peridot, photoed, prophet, proteid, theroid, torpedo, tripped, trooped.

-5 letters: dehort, deport, dhooti, dipper, dither, dopier, dotier, editor, ephori, heriot, hipped, hipper, hoodie, hooped, hooper, hoopoe, hooted, hooter, hopped, hopper, hotrod, ophite, oroide, peptid, period, pithed, podite, poohed, pooped, ported, pother, potpie.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-o-o-o-p-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: photoperiods.

 

+2 letters: photoperiodic.

 

+3 letters: photoperiodism.

 

+4 letters: photoperiodisms.

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

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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