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QCD

Definition: QCD

QCD

Noun

1. A theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: QCD

Synonym: quantum chromodynamics (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: QCD

DomainTitle

Books

  • Qcd Work: International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics: Theory and Experiment: Martina Franca, Bari, Italy 16-20 June 2001 (Aip Conference proc (reference)

  • QCD and Collider Physics (reference)

  • Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Pertubative Aspects of Qcd (NATO Science Series. II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, 83) (reference)

  • Qcd Perspectives on Hot and Dense Matter (reference)

  • The Nuclear Equation of State, Part B: Qcd and the Formation of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (NATO Asi Series B, Physics, Vol 216B) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: QCD

"QCD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "QCD" is used about 5 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 (proper)100%5157,705

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: QCD

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

qcd

249

player qcd

44

plugin qcd

10

qcd skin

9

america qcd

5

dental qcd

4

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3

latest qcd

2

download player qcd

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

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Anagrams: QCD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "c-d-q"
 

+4 letters: calqued, casqued, cliqued, quacked, quadric.

 

+5 letters: acquired, adequacy, aquacade, aqueduct, charquid, jacquard, quadrics, quenched, quidnunc.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QCD


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

51 43 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010001 01000011 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0043 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

513738

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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