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ADULARESCENCE

Specialty Definition: ADULARESCENCE

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Mining

A. A milky white to bluish sheen in gemstones b. The changeable white to pale bluish luster of an adularia cut cabochon c. A floating, billowy, white or bluish light, seen in certain directions as a gemstone (usually adularia) is turned, caused by diffused reflection of light from parallel intergrowths of another feldspar of slightlydifferent refractive index from the main mass. Syn:schiller. (references)

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

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Anagrams: ADULARESCENCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-d-e-e-e-l-n-r-s-u"

-3 letters: clearances, succedanea.

-4 letters: auslander, calcaneus, calendars, calenders, cancelers, caruncles, ceruleans, clarences, clearance, credences, escalader, reaccedes, reaccused, recleaned, succeeder.

-5 letters: acceders, accruals, accursed, adrenals, ascender, cadences, caducean, caesurae, caesural, calderas, calendar, calender, canceled, canceler, candelas, candlers, caraculs, cardcase, careened, caruncle, cenacles, censured, cerulean, cesarean, clarence, cleaners, cleansed, cleanser, credence, creneled, declares, decrease, durances, escalade.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ADULARESCENCE


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

41 44 55 4C 41 52 45 53 43 45 4E 43 45

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

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

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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)

01000001 01000100 01010101 01001100 01000001 01010010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01000101 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#85 &#76 &#65 &#82 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#69 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0055 004C 0041 0052 0045 0053 0043 0045 004E 0043 0045

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

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

35385546355239533739483739

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2. Orthography
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