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| Domain | Definitions |
Mining | A. A fragment of rock or mineral mechanically ground to a thickness of approx. 0.03 mm, and mounted between glasses as a microscope slide. Rocks and most minerals except the oxides and sulfides of the metals are translucent to transparent in thin section, and the optical properties of each mineral can be studied with the microscope. See also:polished section b. A rock or mineral slice cut for study by transmitted light with a polarized-light microscope. It may also be polished for study with a reflected-light microscope.c. A coal seam less than its normal thickness. (references) |
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Crosswords: THIN SECTION |
| English words defined with "THIN SECTION": Paralytic secretion ♦ thin, Thin sections. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "THIN SECTION": anthraxylon, axial figure ♦ batt ♦ clarinite ♦ feather edge ♦ Griffith wing ♦ interference color, interference figure ♦ lucid attrite ♦ Meigen's reaction, membrane theory, microsection ♦ nonmetallic mineral ♦ petrographic microscope, PLASTIC DUPLICATOR ♦ splint coal ♦ torsional shear test. (references) |
| 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 |
thin section bearing | 7 |
thin section | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "THIN SECTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 薄片 (thin slice). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | inthay ectionsay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nontheistic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-i-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: nicotines, nontheist, thionines. | |
-3 letters: chinones, chitties, coniines, contents, ethicist, ichnites, inhesion, instinct, itchiest, nicotine, nicotins, nitchies, oscinine, osteitic, stenotic, stiction, theistic, thinnest, thionine, thionins, tinniest, tinstone, tonetics, tontines. | |
-4 letters: chinone, chitins, chitons, coniine, conines, consent, content, contest, eosinic, ethions, ethnics, hinnies, histone, ichnite, incites, inosite, intents, intines, intones, nicotin, nitchie, notches, notices, scottie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-i-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: authentications. | |
+5 letters: acetophenetidins, antitechnologies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 48 49 4E 53 45 43 54 49 4F 4E |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01010011 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T H I N   S E C T I O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0048 0049 004E 0053 0045 0043 0054 0049 004F 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54424348253393754434948 |
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