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TAUTOCHRONE

Definition: TAUTOCHRONE

TAUTOCHRONE

Noun

1. A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal is a tautochrone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Tautochrone \Tau"to*chrone\, noun. [from Greek expression, for the same time: compare to the French expression tautochrone.]. (Websters 1913)

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Crosswords: TAUTOCHRONE

English words defined with "TAUTOCHRONE": Tautochronous. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TAUTOCHRONE

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

tautochrone

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: TAUTOCHRONE

Language Translations for "tautochrone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

autochronetay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "TAUTOCHRONE"

Words rhyming with "TAUTOCHRONE" (pronounced 'Tau"to*chrone'): Brachystochrone, Euchrone. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TAUTOCHRONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: outercoat.

-3 letters: anchoret, chaunter, coauthor, coronate, corotate, courante, couranto, earthnut, outcheat, outrance, outreach, theocrat, truncate, turncoat.

-4 letters: another, arnotto, cartoon, centaur, chanter, chantor, chatter, cheroot, chunter, contort, contour, coranto, cornute, cornuto, coronae, coronet, cothurn, counter, courant, couther, crouton, curtate, enactor, etchant, haunter, notcher, ootheca, outearn, outecho, outhear, outrace, outrate, ratchet, rattoon, recount, retouch, taunter, torchon, toucher, touraco, tranche, trounce, uncrate, unearth, unteach, urethan.

-5 letters: acuter, anchor, anther, archon, atoner, attorn, attune, author, cahoot, canter, cantor, carnet, carton, centra, chaunt, chorea, coater, cohort, cohune, contra, cooter, cornea, cornet, cornua, corona, coteau, cottae, cottar, cotter, cotton, couter, craton, croton, curate, cutter, enroot, hatter, hector, honour, hooter, hornet, hotter, hunter, natter, nature, nautch, nectar, notate, nother, nuchae, nutate, nutter, ochone, ochrea, octane, octant, orache, ornate, outact, outate, outeat, outran, rachet, racoon, rancho, ratoon, ratten, ratton, raunch, recant, rochet, rotate, rotche, rotten, rouche, tanrec, tauten, tauter, tenour, tenuto, thenar, thoron, threat, throat, throne, tocher, tooter, toroth, torten, tother, toucan, touche, touter, trance, trench, troche, truant, turaco, unroot.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-n-o-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: eutrophication.

 

+4 letters: eutrophications.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TAUTOCHRONE


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

54 41 55 54 4F 43 48 52 4F 4E 45

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

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

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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 01000001 01010101 01010100 01001111 01000011 01001000 01010010 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#65 &#85 &#84 &#79 &#67 &#72 &#82 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0041 0055 0054 004F 0043 0048 0052 004F 004E 0045

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

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

5435555449374252494839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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