Tyndall

Definition: Tyndall

Tyndall

Noun

1. British physicist (born in Ireland) remembered for his experiments on the transparency of gases and the absorption of radiant heat by gases and the transmission of sound through the atmosphere; he was the first person to explain why the daylight sky is blue (1820-1893).

Date "Tyndall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonym: Tyndall

Synonym: John Tyndall (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Tyndall

Specialty definitions using "Tyndall": HEAT. (references)

Domain	Title
References	Tyndall Meridian Trust: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Double crossed again : death to all mirrors! : Peter Tyndall, [Berlin], 16.Mai-14. Juni 1992 (reference) John Tyndall, essays on a natural philosopher (reference) Peter Cripps interviews : Robert MacPherson, Peter Tyndall, Vivianne Shark LeWitt, Jim Johnson, Geoff Lowe, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Scott Redford, Mark Webb, Robyn McKenzie (reference) Peter Tyndall : dagger definitions (reference) TYNDALL AUSTRALIA LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Professor John Tyndall, half-length portrait, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HEAT, n. Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point; but this I know -- hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild. Crede expertum -- I have seen them, child. Gorton Swope
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"Tyndall" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 88.57% of the time. "Tyndall" is used about 35 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)	88.57%	31	62,296
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.57%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	2.86%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	35	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "Tyndall" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Tyndall	Last name	2,000	6,334
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Country	Name
Australia	Tyndall Meridian Trust
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1. Tyndall, SD (city, FIPS 64860)
Location: 42.98973 N, 97.86460 W
Population (1990): 1201 (564 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 57066
Country: USA

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Expressions: Tyndall

Expressions using "Tyndall": John Tyndall ♦ Tyndall AFB ♦ Tyndall effect. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tyndall

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
tyndall federal credit union	258	mail tyndall web	7
tyndall afb	99	creek furniture tyndall	5
tyndall air force base	80	furniture tyndall	5
afb city fl panama tyndall	64	tyndall south dakota	4
tyndall	56	afb map tyndall	4
credit tyndall union	28	afb florida tyndall	3
federal tyndall	19	dees tyndall	3
tyndall creek	19	air base florida force tyndall	3
efecto tyndall	14	stone tyndall	3
john tyndall	14	creek porch swing tyndall	3
tyndall creek rocker	13	credit tyndall	3
fcu tyndall	12	report tyndall	3
effect tyndall	11	air force tyndall	3
tyndall sd	9	21 century dees tyndall	2
tyndall afb fl	9	tribune tyndall	2
credit federal tyndall	7	mt tyndall	2
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Anagrams: Tyndall

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-l-l-n-t-y"
	-2 letters: dally, tally.
	-3 letters: ally, lady, land, tall, yald.
	-4 letters: all, alt, and, ant, any, dal, day, lad, lat, lay, nay, tad, tan.
	-5 letters: ad, al, an, at, ay, la, na, ta, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-l-l-n-t-y"
	+1 letter: dentally.
	+3 letters: lamentedly.
	+4 letters: anecdotally, antidotally, dauntlessly, dictionally, doctrinally, endosteally, identically.
	+5 letters: accidentally, additionally, adolescently, alloantibody, desolatingly, devotionally, diatonically, dynastically, evidentially, fraudulently, ideationally, incidentally, indelicately, industrially, intertidally, judgmentally, occidentally, outlandishly, pedantically, prudentially, syndetically.
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