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SEMIDIURNAL

Definitions: SEMIDIURNAL

SEMIDIURNAL

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or traversed in, six hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.

2. Pertaining to, or accomplished in, half a day, or twelve hours; occurring twice every day.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: SEMIDIURNAL

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

Having a period of, occurring in, or related to approximately half a day. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SEMIDIURNAL

Specialty definitions using "SEMIDIURNAL": lunar atmospheric tide. (references)

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Modern Translations: SEMIDIURNAL

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

Albanian

  

gjysmë dite e nate. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

полудневен (for half a day, half-day). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

emidiurnalsay

   

Russian 

  

полусуточный (semi-diurnal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

poludnevni (half-day). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

півдобовий. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SEMIDIURNAL"

Words rhyming with "SEMIDIURNAL" (pronounced 'Sem`i*di*ur"nal'): Paludinal, Paraphernal, Paternal, Penal, Phonal, Piperonal, Plenal, Postanal, Prespinal, Prorenal, Prorhinal, Ranal, Regnal, Siphorhinal, Subpoenal, Subumbonal. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SEMIDIURNAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-u"

-1 letter: luminaires, luminaries.

-2 letters: deliriums, laundries, luminaire, meridians, muraenids, nursemaid, semilunar, uredinial, urinemias.

-3 letters: airlines, alienism, alumines, amidines, aneurism, delirium, denarius, diamines, dismaler, diurnals, drumlins, duramens, idealism, indusial, islander, launders, lurdanes, mandrels, mandrils, marlines, maunders, maundies, mensural, meridian, midlines, miladies, minerals, mislearn, misruled, muraenid, numerals, ramilies, residual, rimlands, sedilium, semiarid, surnamed, unraised, uranides, uredinia.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-m-n-r-s-u"
 

+5 letters: denumerabilities, intermodulations, transilluminated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SEMIDIURNAL


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

53 45 4D 49 44 49 55 52 4E 41 4C

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)

...    .    --    ..    -..    ..    ..-    .-.    -.    .-    .-..

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

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

01010011 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000100 01001001 01010101 01010010 01001110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#68 &#73 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0045 004D 0049 0044 0049 0055 0052 004E 0041 004C

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

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

5339474338435552483546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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