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WASC

Specialty Definition: WASC

DomainDefinition

Census

Designation for the (Western Administrative Support Center), Seattle, Washington, Department of Commerce. One of four Administrative Support Centers located throughout the United States. These centers provide administrative support services for all Department of Commerce field offices including the Census Regional Offices, in the same way the Financial Services Division in Germantown, Maryland, provides administrative support services for Department of Commerce and Census Bureau headquarters facilities. See also CASC (Central Administrative Support Center), EASC (Eastern Administrative Support Center), and MASC (Mountain Administrative Support Center). (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: WASC

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

WASC

EnglishWestern Association of Schools and CollegesEducation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: WASC

Specialty definitions using "WASC": CASCEASCMASC. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WASC

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

accreditation wasc

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: WASC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caws.

Words within the letters "a-c-s-w"

-1 letter: caw, sac, saw, was.

-2 letters: as, aw.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-s-w"
 

+1 letter: chaws, claws, craws, schwa, wacks.

 

+2 letters: cahows, cashaw, cashew, crawls, cushaw, macaws, schwas, scrawl, sowcar, swatch, wackes, wackos, whacks, wracks.

 

+3 letters: backsaw, bucksaw, carwash, cashaws, cashews, catspaw, chawers, clawers, cogways, cowages, cowards, cowpats, cowpeas, cumshaw, cushaws, declaws, hacksaw, kwachas, salchow, sawbuck, scrawls, scrawly, scrawny, snowcap, sowcars, swacked, thwacks, wackoes, waesuck, watches, wauchts, whackos.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WASC


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

57 41 53 43

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

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

=

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)

01010111 01000001 01010011 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#65 &#83 &#67

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0041 0053 0043

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

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

57355337

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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