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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Sun protection factor, scale for rating the level of sunburn protection in sunscreen products. The higher the SPF, the more sunburn protection it provides. Sunscreens with an SPF value of 2 through 11 provide minimal protection against sunburns. Sunscreens with an SPF of 12 through 29 provide moderate protection, which is adequate for most people. Those with an SPF of 30 or higher provide high protection against sunburn and are sometimes recommended for people who are highly sensitive to the sun. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "SPF."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SPF | Dutch | Kwaliteitsfactor van het systeem | Electrical Engineering |
SPF | English | South Pacific Forum | N/A |
SPF | Latin | RM:Scolas politecnicas federalas | Public Administration, Education |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: SPF |
| Specialty definitions using "SPF": sun protection factor. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Centaur Standard Shroud at SPF Plum Brook. Credit: NASA. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Maximum photoprotection is afforded by chemical sunscreens with SPF ratings of 15 or higher. (references) | |
Recommendations for accomplishing this should include avoiding exposure to sunlight unless protected by clothing, hats, and/or application of broad spectrum sunscreens of SPF 15 or higher and avoiding exposure to midday sunlight and tanning parlors. (references) | ||
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Always use sunblock with UVA and UVB protection (minimum SPF 30) when visiting the beach. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SPF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.12% of the time. "SPF" is used about 41 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 (proper) | 95.12% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 2.44% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 41 | N/A |
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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "f-p-s" | |
+1 letter: fops. | |
+2 letters: flaps, flips, flops, fraps, pelfs, poofs, poufs, profs, puffs, spiff, spoof. | |
+3 letters: flumps, frumps, pilafs, pouffs, proofs, spiffs, spiffy, spliff, spoofs, spoofy. | |
+4 letters: capfuls, cupfuls, cupsful, felspar, fillips, fipples, flypast, foppish, forceps, frappes, frypans, fuckups, fusspot, lapfuls, panfish, panfuls, payoffs, perfuse, piaffes, piffles, pigfish, pilaffs, pilfers, pinfish, postfix, potfuls, pouffes, prefabs, prefers, presift, profess, profits, profuse, puffers, puffins, pupfish, purfles, pushful, putoffs, ripoffs, specify, spiffed, spinoff, spliffs, spoofed, spoofer, sportif, stupefy, tipoffs, upflows, upfolds, uplifts, upshift, upwafts. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01010011 01010000 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0046 |
| 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)535040 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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