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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | TSP travelling salesman problem. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | (Thrift Savings Plan) A tax deferred defined contribution retirement savings plan, comparable to private sector 401(k) plans where employees contribute portions of their salaries on a pre-tax basis. (references) |
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 |
TSP | Danish | Testsupportprofil | Post & Telecom |
TSP | English | Tinbergen Scholarships Programme | N/A |
TSP | French | Thrombospondine | Biology & Biotechnology, Medicine |
TSP | Italian | Trasformazione di stanziamenti in posti di lavoro | Finance, Labor |
TSP | Portuguese | Perfil de suporte de teste | Post & Telecom |
TSP | Swedish | Handelsresandeproblemet | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: TSP |
| Specialty definitions using "TSP": TLAs, travelling salesman problem. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TSP" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (test support profile). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | During the mid-1980's, an important association was established between the first human retrovirus-human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type 1 (also known as HTLV-1)-and idiopathic TSP (idiopathic means of unknown origin). (references) | |
Neurological and modern neuroepidemiological studies found that in some individuals no one cause could explain the progressive weakness, sensory disturbance, and sphincter dysfunction that affected individuals with TSP. In spite of public health programs created to eradicate the above-mentioned infectious and nutritional conditions in the tropics, large numbers of people continued to be affected. (references) | ||
Business | Emissions of air polluting substances such as SO2 and TSP have been reduced as the result of the implementation of new air pollution abatement policies. (references) | |
Furthermore, emission charges will be imposed on emission facilities, which violate standards of TSP, SO2, etc. The MOE has reduced the maximum permissible sulfur content of diesel and B-C oil and has encouraged the use of cleaner burning fuels. (references) | ||
Economic History | Syria | Arab Development Funds have been earmarked for the partial funding of the TSP project. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TSP" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 54.90% of the time. "TSP" is used about 337 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 (common) | 54.9% | 185 | 22,646 |
| Noun (singular) | 40.65% | 137 | 27,138 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.45% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Total | 100.00% | 337 | 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tsp | 4,501 | government tsp us | 4 |
government tsp | 119 | com tsp | 4 |
federal tsp | 17 | star tsp | 4 |
tsp cleaner | 13 | plan tsp | 4 |
plan savings thrift tsp | 11 | open season tsp | 4 |
savings tsp | 10 | 3 tsp | 4 |
1 tsp | 10 | catch tsp up | 4 |
com government tsp | 9 | tinsuns tsp | 4 |
loan tsp | 9 | plan savings strategy thrift tsp | 4 |
form tsp | 8 | s tinsun tsp | 4 |
1 c tsp | 7 | 20 form tsp | 3 |
20 tsp | 7 | access account tsp | 3 |
racing.com tsp | 7 | catch contribution tsp up | 3 |
gov.com tsp | 6 | tsp usps | 3 |
pee tsp | 6 | inc tsp | 3 |
home page tsp | 5 | application loan tsp | 3 |
partner solution technology tsp | 5 | ip tsp | 3 |
racing tsp | 5 | site tsp web | 3 |
military tsp | 5 | file tsp | 2 |
account tsp | 5 | tsp 550 | 2 |
plan savings tsp | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "TSP": catspaw, catspaws, craftspeople, craftsperson, craftspersons, dessertspoon, dessertspoonful, dessertspoonfuls, dessertspoons, dessertspoonsful, draftsperson, draftspersons, hotspot, hotspots, hotspur, hotspurs, nightspot, nightspots, outspan, outspanned, outspanning, outspans, outsparkle, outsparkled, outsparkles, outsparkling, outspeak, outspeaking, outspeaks, outsped, outspeed, outspeeded, outspeeding, outspeeds, outspell, outspelled, outspelling, outspells, outspelt, outspend, outspending, outspends, outspent, outspoke, outspoken, outspokenly, outspokenness, outspokennesses, outspread, outspreading, outspreads. (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 53 50 |
| 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 01010011 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T S P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0053 0050 |
| 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)545350 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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