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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TPS Tree Pruning System. "An Adaptive Tree Pruning System: A Language for Programming Heuristic Tree Searches", E.W. Kozdrowicki, Proc ACM 23rd Natl Conf 1968. 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 |
TPS | English | Tape programming system | N/A |
TPS | French | Total des particules en suspension | Environment |
TPS | Italian | Seme botanico | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TPS |
| Specialty definitions using "TPS": Temporary Protected Status, TLAs. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Austria | The Government's program of assistance for Bosnian war refugees in TPS expired on July 31, 2000. Approximately 300 Bosnian refugees formerly in TPS remained in the country and are being supported by the social welfare system. (references) |
Austria | A total of 5,080 Kosovar Albanians were evacuated directly from Macedonia and admitted to Austria under cover of TPS. The immigration law was modified to allow Kosovar Albanians already in the country in a variety of statuses to extend their stay. (references) | |
Austria | In addition residence rights were extended to those needing protection, immediate relatives of guest workers who had benefited from the original assistance program under either TPS or asylum, and Kosovars who had stayed in the country until July 2000 under either TPS or asylum--provided that one immediate family member was integrated into the labor market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "TPS" is used about 30 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 (plural) | 53.33% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (proper) | 43.33% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "TPS": tps-a. | |
Ending with "TPS": Non-tps. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tps | 317 | colombianos para tps | 6 |
tps hockey | 37 | sat tps | 6 |
report tps | 28 | office report space tps | 6 |
tps softball bat | 26 | gold tps | 6 |
louisville tps | 25 | tps tvq | 6 |
sensor tps | 20 | powerbilt tps | 5 |
tps bat | 20 | credit tps union | 5 |
hex tps | 18 | staffing tps | 5 |
tps softball | 11 | file tps | 5 |
75 tps | 10 | form tps | 5 |
tps genesis | 10 | 63 tps | 5 |
tps response | 10 | file hex tps | 4 |
gloves softball tps | 9 | portail tps | 4 |
louisville slugger tps | 9 | art tps | 4 |
colombia tps | 7 | carte pirate tps | 4 |
honduras tps | 7 | response rubber tps | 4 |
sheet tps | 7 | code sat tps | 4 |
code tps | 7 | tps goalie pad | 4 |
colombian tps | 7 | piratage tps | 4 |
louisville tps hockey | 6 | tps xxl | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "TPS": postpsychoanalytic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: opts, past, pats, pest, pets, pits, post, pots, psst, puts, sept, spat, spit, spot, step, stop, taps, tips, tops, tups. | |
+2 letters: ataps, estop, pacts, pants, parts, pasta, paste, pasts, pasty, pates, paths, patsy, peats, pelts, pesto, pests, pesty, phots, phuts, pints, piste, pitas, piths, plats, plots, poets, ports, posit, posts, potsy, pouts, prats, prest, prost, punts, putts, septa, septs, setup, situp, slept, slipt, spait, spate, spats, spelt, spent, spilt, spirt, spite, spits, spitz, splat, split, sport, spots, spout, sprat, sprit, spurt, sputa, stamp, staph, steep, steps, stipe, stirp, stomp, stoop, stope, stops, stopt, stoup, stowp, strap, strep, strip, strop, stump, stupa, stupe, swept, tamps, tapas, tapes, tapis, tarps, temps, tepas, tipis, tipsy, topes, tophs, topis, topos, traps, trips, tumps, turps, types, typos, typps, upset. | |
| 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)54 50 53 |
| 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)01010100 01010000 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T P S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0050 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)545053 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Abbreviations 8. Acronyms | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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