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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TBF Mean Time Between Failures. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
TBF | English | Torpedo bomber fighter | N/A |
TBF | Greek | χρόνος μεταξύ διαδοχικών αποτυχιών | Computing, Post & Telecom |
TBF | Italian | Tempo di funzionamento tra due guasti | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A USS Boston (CA-69) OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane returns to the cruiser after rescuing a crewman of a downed TBF bomber, during raids on Japanese targets in the Hollandia Area, 21 April 1944. ARM2c W.R. Kesey is on the wing. AOM3c B.A. Kanitcer is in the rear cockpit. The OS2U's pilot is not identified. Credit: NAVY. |  | Operating at sea, circa mid-1943, with a TBF "Avenger" flying over her bow. This photo may have been taken during carrier trials for the SB2C "Helldiver". Most of the planes on her flight deck are of that type. Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Underway at sea, circa 1942. Planes on deck include five Grumman F4F fighters, six Douglas SBD scout bombers and one Grumman TBF torpedo plane. Credit: NAVY. |  | At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 17 July 1942, with at least eight SBD scout bombers and one TBF torpedo plane parked on her flight deck. She is painted in camouflage Measure 12 (Modified), and wears an unusual number on her bow: "751". Credit: NAVY. |
 | Underway with a mixed cargo of airplanes and stores on her flight deck, 25 May 1943. The planes include F4F, SBD and TBF types. Credit: NAVY. |  | With Grumman TBF "Avenger" aircraft parked on her flight deck, 8 January 1944. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Rear cockpit and .50 caliber machinegun turret of the only survivor of six Torpedo Squadron Eight (VT-8) Grumman TBF "Avengers" that had attacked the Japanese carrier force in the morning of 4 June 1942. Seaman 1st Class Jay D. Manning, who was operating the .50 caliber machinegun turret, was killed in action with Japanese fighters during the attack. Damage to the turret can be seen in this view. The plane's pilot was Ensign Albert K. Earnest and the other crewman was Radioman 3rd Class Harry H. Ferrier. Both survived the action. Ship in the left background is probably USS Ballard (AVD-10). For additional information on this aircraft, see: Photo # 80-G-11635 (Complete Caption). Credit: NAVY. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "TBF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "TBF" is used about 4 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tbf | 16 |
tanita tbf 559 | 8 |
tbf avenger | 7 |
racing tbf | 7 |
tbf 622 | 3 |
tanita tbf 622 | 3 |
tanita tbf 612 | 3 |
tbf 612 | 2 |
tanita tbf 621 | 2 |
grumman tbf avenger | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-t" | |
+2 letters: abaft, befit. | |
+3 letters: befits, befret, bereft, botfly, buffet, tubful. | |
+4 letters: backfit, barefit, batfish, batfowl, beatify, bedfast, befrets, benefit, bigfeet, bigfoot, boatful, brutify, buffets, fatback, fatbird, filbert, flatbed, flybelt, flyboat, footboy, gabfest, offbeat, tubfuls, tubifex, webfeet, webfoot. | |
+5 letters: backfits, barefoot, batfowls, beatific, beautify, beefiest, befitted, benefits, bifidity, biforate, bigfoots, blastoff, bluffest, boastful, boatfuls, botflies, bouffant, bowfront, briefest, buffeted, buffeter, buffiest, clubfeet, clubfoot, doubtful, fabulist, faltboat, fastback, fastball, fatbacks, fatbirds, feeblest, fibrotic, filberts, fireboat, firebrat, fishbolt, fittable, flatbeds, flatboat, fleabite, flybelts, flyboats, foldboat, football, footbath, footboys, freeboot, frostbit, fubsiest, gabfests, hoofbeat, lifeboat, liftable, offbeats, outbluff, outfable, softback, softball, subshaft, surfboat, tableful, tubiform, turbofan. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 42 46 |
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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)01010100 01000010 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T B F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0042 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)543640 |
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