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TPS

Specialty Definition: TPS

DomainDefinition

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.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TPS

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

TPS

EnglishTape programming systemN/A

TPS

FrenchTotal des particules en suspensionEnvironment

TPS

ItalianSeme botanicoN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: TPS

Specialty definitions using "TPS": Temporary Protected Status, TLAs. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TPS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Stu Tps Desc Crear 3e Part 1 (reference)

  • Tecnicas De Conduccion, Trucaje De Motores (Biblioteca Tecnica Y Practica De LA Motocicleta/Rdng Tech, Mntnc and Care Tps) (reference)

  • Toyota in Indonesia : a case study on the transfer on the TPS (reference)

  • Trails Illustrated Flt Tps Ne/Trapper Lake, Colorado (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: TPS

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: TPS

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)53.33%1687,710
Noun (proper)43.33%1397,576
Noun (common)3.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: TPS

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "TPS": tps-a.

Ending with "TPS": Non-tps.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TPS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Derivations: TPS

Derivations

Words containing "TPS": postpsychoanalytic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: TPS

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.

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Alternative Orthography: TPS


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

54 50 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

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)

01010100 01010000 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#80 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0050 0053

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

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

545053

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INDEX

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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