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Definition: SAROS |
SAROSNoun1. A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years. |
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Aerospace | The eclipse cycle of about 18 years, almost the same length as 223 synodical months. See lunar cycle.At the end of each saros the sun, moon, and line of nodes return to approximately the same relative positions and another series of eclipses begins, closely resembling the series just completed. (references) |
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Books | |
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| 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 |
saros viewer | 15 |
saros | 4 |
cycle saros | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "saros"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Pig Latin | arossay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "SAROS": saroses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SAROS" (pronounced sÄ"rōs) |
| 3 | -r ō s | dextrose, sucrose. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: soars, soras. | |
| Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: oars, osar, ossa, soar, sora. | |
-2 letters: ars, ass, oar, ora, ors, ras, sos. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, or, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: across, arsons, assort, kaross, morass, roasts, sapors, sarods, savors, serosa, sofars, sonars, sowars. | |
+2 letters: absorbs, adsorbs, aorists, ariosos, aristos, arkoses, arouses, assorts, assuror, castors, corsacs, costars, dorsals, isobars, lassoer, morassy, oarless, orgasms, ossuary, parsons, pastors, ramsons, ransoms, reasons, resoaks, rugosas, safrols, sailors, salvors, sapours, sarcous, sarodes, sarongs, saroses, sartors, satoris, saviors, savours, senoras, serosae, serosal, serosas, shofars, shorans, soakers, soapers, soarers, souaris, soucars, sovrans, sowcars, stators, suasory, upsoars. | |
+3 letters: abrosias, advisors, aerosats, aerosols, agaroses, airposts, alastors, amorists, anserous, apposers, argosies, arousals, arousers, arsenous, arsonist, arsonous, aspersor, assentor, assertor, assessor, assignor, assistor, assorted, assorter, assurors, ausforms, baroness, boasters, borstals, carassow, carouses, coarsens, coarsest, coasters, corsages, corsairs, costards, crossarm, crossbar, crossway, crusados, curassow, droseras, earshots, erasions, escolars, espartos, forsakes, gasworks, girasols, glossary, gossamer, hoarsens, hoarsest, isobares, isograms, karosses, lacrosse, lassoers, maestros, mayoress, morasses, mosasaur, narcoses, narcosis, oralisms, oralists, oratress, ostmarks, outsoars, overpass, overseas, parasols, passover, passport, password, personas, pharoses, presoaks, prosaism, prosaist, prosomas, protases, protasis, rasboras, reassort, reposals, reseason, responsa, roadless, roasters, robustas, rosaries, rosebays, roseolas, rousseau, sadirons, saffrons, safroles, saguaros, sahuaros, samovars, santours, saporous, saprobes, sarcoids, sarcomas, sargasso, sarodist, sautoirs, saviours, savorers, savories, savorous, sawhorse, saxhorns, scabrous, scariose, scarious, scholars, seaports, seashore, seasoner, senators, senhoras, sensoria, serranos, shophars, shortias, signoras, soarings, socagers, solacers, solarise, solarism, sopranos, sorbates, sparoids, sparrows, sporrans, squalors, stardoms, starnose, storages, storaxes, stratous, subsolar, surcoats, toasters, torsades, transoms, treasons, tsardoms, vavasors, vavassor, votaress, warisons. | |
+4 letters: abrasions, absolvers, absorbers, accessory, acrosomes, acrostics, acrotisms, adjustors, adsorbers, aerostats, afforests, aggressor, albatross, algorisms, amauroses, amaurosis, ambrosias, amortises, ancestors, anchoress, anestrous, angstroms, aphorises, aphorisms, aphorists, arborists, armorless, arrestors, arsenious, arsonists, arthroses, arthrosis, ascocarps, ascospore, aspersion, aspersors, assentors, assertion, assertors, assessors, assignors, assistors, assorters, assorting, asteroids, atomisers, atropisms, attestors, aurochses, authoress, autocross, aversions, backcross, barbascos, barstools, boshvarks, boyarisms, broadness, cabestros, cabrestos, capsomers, carassows, caroluses, carousals, carousels, carousers, caryopses, caryopsis, caseworks, caseworms, casserole, cassowary, castratos, classroom, coatdress, commissar, contrasts, copastors, cordgrass, croissant, crossable, crossarms, crossbars, crossbeam, crosshair, crosshead, crossroad, crosstalk, crosswalk, crossways, crusadoes, cryostats, curassows, diasporas, diaspores, dinosaurs, disfavors, dramshops, earstones, ectosarcs, endosarcs, escargots, escaroles, estragons, farnesols, forecasts, foremasts, foresails, forestays, forsakers, forswears, fossorial, furanoses, garrisons, gasoliers, girasoles, glasswork, glasswort, glossator, gossamers, gossamery, graciosos, grandsons, grassroot, grosbeaks, grossular, gyrostats, hardnoses, hoariness, horsecars, hospodars, hourglass, idocrases, isografts, isographs, isolators, isomerase, jarosites, keratoses, keratosis, knotgrass, lacrosses, loadstars, lodestars, mariposas, marmosets, masonries, mesocarps, misfeasor, mislabors, monsteras, moralises, moralisms, moralists, mosasaurs, nonsugars, oarfishes, oleasters, organises, organisms, organists, orinasals, osnaburgs, ossicular, ossifrage, ossuaries, ostiaries, ostracise, ostracism, ostracods, outraises, outsavors, outsmarts, outstares, outstarts, outswears, overcasts, oversales, oversalts, oversaves, oversoaks, overstays, overtasks, paradoses, parodists, paroxysms, passovers, passports, passwords, pastorals, pastromis, patroness, personals, piscators, plastrons, polarises, polestars, postcards, postcrash, postgrads, postmarks, potshards, preseason, prolapses, prophases, proposals, prosaisms, prosaists, prostates, proteases, psoraleas, psoralens, psoriases, psoriasis, pulsators, pyranoses, pyrostats, quaestors, ramshorns, ransomers, reabsorbs, rearouses, reasoners, reassorts, reseasons, resonants, resonates, restorals, rhamnoses, rhapsodes, rheobases, rheostats, roadshows, roadsides, roadsters, romanises, rosaceous, rosarians, rosariums, rousseaus, royalisms, royalists, saboteurs, sagamores, salerooms, salesroom, saltworks, saltworts, sandstorm, sandworms, sandworts, sapropels, sarcosome, sargassos, sarodists, sartorius, sauropods, sautoires, savoriest, savorless, savourers, savouries, sawhorses, sayonaras, scenarios, scleromas, scorepads, scrofulas, seaboards, seadromes, seafloors, seafronts, searobins, seashores, seasoners, seatworks, senoritas, sensorial, seraglios, sforzatos, shadowers, shamrocks, shortages, soapbarks, soapworts, softwares, solanders, solarised, solarises, solarisms, solariums, solarizes, sonograms, sonorants, soreheads, sororates, sourballs, sowbreads, spanworms, sportsman, squadrons, starnoses, starworts, stegosaur, stockcars, storables, strontias, surfboats, surroyals, swordsman, sycamores, taskworks, testators, transpose, travoises, trousseau, unreasons, valorises, vaporises, varistors, vavasours, vavassors, virtuosas, votarists, warhorses, washrooms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 41 52 4F 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- .-. --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000001 01010010 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S A R O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0041 0052 004F 0053 |
| 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)5335524953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Rhymes 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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