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Definition: VIRIAL |
VIRIALNoun1. A certain function relating to a system of forces and their points of application, -- first used by Clausius in the investigation of problems in molecular physics. |
Etymology: Virial \Vir"i*al\, noun. [Latin expression vis, viris, force.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: VIRIAL |
| Specialty definitions using "VIRIAL": virial coefficients. (references) |
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| "VIRIAL" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VIRIAL" is used about 13 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 (singular) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "VIRIAL": virial coefficients. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
theorem virial | 3 |
coefficient osmotic second virial | 3 |
coefficient virial | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VIRIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | virialkoefficienter (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | viriaalcoefficienten (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viriaalikerroin (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | coefficients du viriel (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Virialkoeffizienten (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | virial συντελεστές (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | coefficienti del viriale (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | irialvay coeficientes viriais (virial coefficients). (various references) virialkoefficient (virial coefficients). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "VIRIAL" (pronounced 'Vir"i*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: rival, viral. | |
-2 letters: aril, ilia, lair, lari, liar, lira, liri, rail, rial, vail, vair, vial, virl. | |
-3 letters: ail, air, lar, lav, ria, var, via. | |
-4 letters: ai, al, ar, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: ravioli, trivial, virelai. | |
+2 letters: raviolis, rivaling, vicarial, virelais, virginal, vizirial. | |
+3 letters: antiviral, chivalric, larvicide, leviratic, rivalling, rivalries, trivially, veridical, vibratile, virginals, viricidal, virucidal, vizierial. | |
+4 letters: chivalries, clavierist, intravital, invariable, invariably, irrelative, larvicidal, larvicides, nontrivial, prevailing, provincial, quadrivial, reavailing, relativism, relativist, relativity, relativize, revitalise, revitalize, revivalism, revivalist, riboflavin, travailing, trivialise, trivialist, triviality, trivialize, valorising, valorizing, velarizing, verifiable, virginally, virtuality, visualizer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 49 52 49 41 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .. .-. .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01001001 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V I R I A L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0049 0052 0049 0041 004C |
| 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)564352433546 |
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