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Date "TVA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TVA | French | Taxe sur la valeur ajoutée | Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | TVA (1940) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Canada | TVA Group Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
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. | |||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 56 41 |
| 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 01010110 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T V A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0056 0041 |
| 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)545635 |
| 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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