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Space | Abbreviation of "Vergeltungwaffe 2" (vengeance weapon 2), a 12-ton German rocket carrying a 1-ton explosive charge, used in World War II, starting in 1944. The V2 had a range of around 200 miles, used a liquid-fuel rocket and was the first large military rocket.Click here for a calculated example involving the acceleration of the V2. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
V2 | English | Unstick Speed | Physics, Transportation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: V2 |
| Specialty definitions using "V2": Amiga E ♦ coalesced sum ♦ Desmopressin ♦ Receptors, Vasopressin, RFC 1441, RFC 1442, RFC 1443, RFC 1444, RFC 1445, RFC 1446, RFC 1447, RFC 1448, RFC 1449, RFC 1450, RFC 1452 ♦ Simple Network Management Protocol version 2 ♦ velocity hea ♦ wind pressure. (references) |
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| "V2" is generally used as an alphabetical symbol -- approximately 93.10% of the time. "V2" is used about 58 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 |
| Alphabetical Symbol | 93.1% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Unclassified Items | 6.9% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 32 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 00110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V 2 |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0032 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5620 |
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