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| Domain | Definition |
Solar | The relative path length of the direct solar beam radiance through the atmosphere. When the sun is directly above a sea-level location the path length is defined as airmass 1 (AM 1.0). AM 1.0 is not synonymous with solar noon because the sun is usually not directly overhead at solar noon in most seasons and locations. When the angle of the sun from zenith (directly overhead) increases, the airmass increases approximately by the secant of the zenith angle. A better calculation (Kasten, F. and A. T. Young (1989). Revised optical air mass tables and approximation formula.Applied Optics 28 (22), 4735-4738 ) follows: m = 1.0 / [ cos(Z) + 0.50572 * (96.07995 Z)-1.6364] where Z is the solar zenith angle. The figure below illustrates the concept of airmass. (references) |
Weather | A widespread body of in the atmosphere that gains certain meteorological or polluted characteristics while set in one location. The characteristics can change as it moves away. (references) |
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"AIRMASS" is a common misspelling or typo for: air mass. |
Crosswords: AIRMASS |
| Specialty definitions using "AIRMASS": Aerosol Optical Depth ♦ Incident Angle ♦ Optical Depth. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| "AIRMASS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AIRMASS" is used about 2 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% | 2 | 245,945 |
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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
airmass | 16 |
airmass header | 11 |
airmass exhaust | 3 |
airmass thundermuff | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: simars. | |
-2 letters: amass, amias, amirs, amiss, arias, arsis, assai, maars, mairs, maria, massa, raias, saris, simar, simas. | |
-3 letters: aims, airs, amas, amia, amir, amis, aria, arms, isms, maar, mair, mars, mass, mirs, miss, raia, rami, rams, rias, rims, sari, sima, sims, sirs, sris. | |
-4 letters: aas, aim, air, ais, ama, ami, arm, ars, ass, ism. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: samurais. | |
+2 letters: alarmisms, alarmists, amaurosis, ambrosias, archaisms, faradisms, mariposas, misawards, pastramis, samariums, sapremias, simarubas, skiagrams, tamarisks. | |
+3 letters: airstreams, amoralisms, anarchisms, artemisias, barbarisms, dramatises, dramatists, frambesias, lamaseries, maharishis, marcasites, marsupials, massacring, parasitism, pharisaism, racialisms, samaritans, samarskite, separatism, tarantisms. | |
+4 letters: airmanships, amaryllises, amateurisms, antiracisms, assimilator, caramelises, gradualisms, imparadises, magistrates, mainstreams, maraschinos, marquisates, marshalcies, marshalship, masticators, naturalisms, oarsmanship, paralogisms, paramnesias, parasitisms, pastoralism, pharisaisms, pharmacists, plagiarisms, pragmatisms, pragmatists, radicalisms, samarskites, sanatoriums, sanitariums, seminarians, separatisms, smaragdites, traumatises, traumatisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 49 52 4D 41 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. -- .- ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01001001 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A I R M A S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0049 0052 004D 0041 0053 0053 |
| 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)35435247355353 |
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