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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | An elongated region where two plates are being pulled away from each other. New crust is formed as molten rock is forced upward into the gap. Examples of spreading centers include the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East African Rift. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SPREADING CENTER |
| Specialty definitions using "SPREADING CENTER": metalliferous mud. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pillow basalts indicating location of former oceanic spreading center. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-g-i-n-n-p-r-r-s-t" | |
-3 letters: carpentering, generatrices, peregrinated, peregrinates, predeceasing, predesignate, prescreening, representing, tragediennes, transpierced. | |
-4 letters: carpentered, carpentries, centenaries, decentering, deprecating, depreciates, desecrating, grandnieces, interceders, intergrades, interspaced, penetrances, percentages, peregrinate, pertinences, precreasing, preenacting, preerecting, pregnancies, reascending, recarpeting, reentrances, reinspected, repentances, rerepeating, rescreening, respreading, tragedienne, transgender, transpierce. | |
-5 letters: adrenergic, anteceding, argentines, carpenters, carpetings, cartridges, centigrade, centipedes, decenaries, decentring, decreasing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 50 52 45 41 44 49 4E 47 43 45 4E 54 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010000 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01000011 01000101 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S P R E A D I N G   C E N T E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0050 0052 0045 0041 0044 0049 004E 0047 0043 0045 004E 0054 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5350523935384348412373948543952 |
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