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Definition: PORISM |
PORISMNoun1. A corollary. 2. A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. |
Etymology: Porism \Po"rism\, noun. [Greek expression thing procured, deduction from demonstration, from to bring, provide: compare to the French expression porisme.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inquiry | Question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention; (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma; (secret); knotty point; (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry. |
Judgment | Noun: result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism; illation; corollary, porism; moral. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: PORISM |
| English words defined with "PORISM": Porismatical, Poristical. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PORISM": porisms. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "PORISM" (pronounced 'Po"rism'): Apriorism, Carbonarism, Charism, Erythrism, Neurism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: primos. | |
| Words within the letters "i-m-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: primo, prims, prism, proms, romps. | |
-2 letters: imps, mirs, miso, mops, mors, piso, pois, poms, prim, prom, pros, rims, rips, romp, roms, simp, sori. | |
-3 letters: imp, ism, mir, mis, mop, mor, mos, oms, ops, ors, pis, poi, pom, pro, psi, rim, rip, rom, sim, sip, sir, som, sop, sri. | |
-4 letters: is, mi, mo, om, op. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-m-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: imports, imposer, improvs, porisms, promise, rompish, semipro, tropism. | |
+2 letters: aphorism, atropism, bimorphs, comprise, dimorphs, implores, imporous, imposers, imposter, impostor, impowers, imprison, improves, isomorph, mariposa, meropias, moperies, morphias, morphins, pastromi, pinworms, pisiform, primeros, primrose, prismoid, promines, promised, promisee, promiser, promises, promisor, prosaism, protiums, rampions, reimpose, semipros, shipworm, slipform, tropisms. | |
+3 letters: aphorisms, atropisms, compilers, compliers, comprised, comprises, comprizes, copremias, emporiums, europiums, impactors, impellors, imperious, implorers, importers, imposters, impostors, imposture, imprisons, improvers, improvise, isomorphs, mariposas, misreport, morphines, myriapods, myriopods, orpiments, parsimony, pastromis, peristome, persimmon, piclorams, picograms, piroplasm, pisiforms, pogromist, premonish, primroses, prismoids, proclaims, prolamins, promisees, promisers, promising, promisors, prosaisms, prosimian, prostomia, protamins, proxemics, reimports, reimposed, reimposes, semigroup, shipworms, slipforms, temporise, trimorphs, whipworms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 52 49 53 4D |
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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 01001111 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O R I S M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0052 0049 0053 004D |
| 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)504952435347 |
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