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TVA

Date "TVA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

"TVA" is a common misspelling or typo for: ova, tea.


Specialty Definition: TVA

DomainDefinition

Census

Designation for the (Tennessee Valley Authority) A government-owned corporation that conducts a unified program of resource development for advancement of economic growth in the Tennessee Valley region. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: TVA

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

TVA may stand for:

Wikipedia:This is a disambiguation page

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "TVA."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: TVA

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

TVA

FrenchTaxe sur la valeur ajoutéeFinance

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

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Modern Usage: TVA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

TVA (1940)

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

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Commercial Usage: TVA

DomainTitle

References

  • TVA Group Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Tva and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (reference)

  • Fdr's Utopian: Arthur Morgan of the Tva (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Photo Album: TVA

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) powerhouse at Tupelo, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical transformers in one of the TVA plants in the Muscle Shoals area, producing war materials by gas synthesis. These plants make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the man. Credit: Library of Congress.

Construction of Douglas Dam, TVA. Credit: Library of Congress.

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Smoke stack of TVA chemical plant where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

Large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress.

The countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas Dam, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.

Countryside near the TVA site of the Douglas dam, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: TVA

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Morocco

Firms that commit to invest $ 20 million or above can benefit from the exemption on imports, on Import Tax (PFI), TVA and on imports of goods and equipment needed to realize their projects. (references)

Brazil

Sao Paulo's telecommunications operator, Telefonica is currently offering high speed services through the Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) and TVA cable television also offers high speed Internet access through cable modem technology their "@jato" service. (references)

Trade

Morocco

Import tax (PFI) and TVA are applied in these agreements. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TVA

"TVA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "TVA" is used about 5 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 (proper)60%3202,518
Noun (singular)40%2245,945
                    Total100.00%5N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: TVA

CountryName
Canada

TVA Group Incorporated

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TVA

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

tva

1,166

déclaration tva

6

credit tva union

54

tva federal credit union

6

credit knoxville tva union

45

canoe.com tva

6

boutique tva

38

intracommunautaire tva

6

knoxville tva employee credit union

36

knoxville tva

6

canoe tva

20

employment tva

6

nouvelles tva

17

television tva

5

lake tva

14

de facteur risque tva

5

dam tva

13

2002 finance loi tva

5

police tva

11

formalité tva

5

concern tva

10

liège tva

5

luxembourg tva

9

information lake tva

5

reseau tva

9

com tva

5

belgique tva

9

tva group

5

lcn tva

8

de taux tva

4

campground tva

8

quebec tva

4

réseau tva

7

river tva

4

expertise tva

7

map tva

4

credit employee tva union

7

auction tva

4

job tva

7

publication tva

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: TVA

Derivations

Words ending with "TVA": boddhisattva, bodhisattva, zemstva. (additional references)

Words containing "TVA": boddhisattvas, bodhisattvas, outvalue, outvalued, outvalues, outvaluing, outvaunt, outvaunted, outvaunting, outvaunts, postvaccinal, postvaccination, postvagotomy, postvasectomy. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: TVA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tav, vat.

Words within the letters "a-t-v"

-1 letter: at, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-t-v"
 

+1 letter: tavs, vast, vats, vatu, vita.

 

+2 letters: avant, avast, avert, davit, gavot, lovat, ovate, stave, trave, valet, vasts, vasty, vatic, vatus, vault, vaunt, vesta, vista, vitae, vital, vitta, volta.

 

+3 letters: abvolt, active, advect, advent, advert, atavic, avatar, avaunt, averts, aviate, avocet, avoset, caveat, cavity, cavort, cravat, dative, davits, gavots, levant, lovats, native, octave, octavo, ottava, savant, savate, starve, staved, staves, tavern, thrave, travel, traves, trivia, vacant, vacate, valets, valuta, vanity, varlet, vaster, vastly, vatful, vatted, vaults, vaulty, vaunts, vaunty, velate, vestal, vestas, viatic, viator, vistas, vitals, vittae, volant, votary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TVA


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

54 56 41

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 01010110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#86 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0056 0041

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

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

545635

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Names: Company Usage
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Abbreviations
10. Acronyms
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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