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ALLOCHTHON

"ALLOCHTHON" is a common misspelling or typo for: allocation, allocution.


Specialty Definition: ALLOCHTHON

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Mining

A. A mass of rock that has been moved from its place of origin by tectonic processes, as in a thrust sheet or nappe. Many allochthonous rocks have been moved so far from their original sites that they differ greatly in facies and structure from those on which they now lie. Ant. autochthon. Syn:allochthonous b. A mass of redeposited sedimentary materials originating from distantsources. (references)

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

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Anagrams: ALLOCHTHON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-l-l-n-o-o-t"

-2 letters: challoth.

-3 letters: alcohol, challot, chaloth, coolant, halloth, octanol.

-4 letters: ahchoo, cahoot, chalot, cholla, clonal, coolth, halloo, hallot, holloa, honcho, hootch, lochan.

-5 letters: achoo, allot, altho, atoll, canto, chant, cholo, cloot, cloth, colon, conto, cotan, hallo, hatch, holla, hollo, hooch, hotch, latch, llano, loach, loath, local, lotah, nacho, natch, notal, notch, octal, octan, talon, tolan.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ALLOCHTHON


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

41 4C 4C 4F 43 48 54 48 4F 4E

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 01001100 01001100 01001111 01000011 01001000 01010100 01001000 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#67 &#72 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004C 004F 0043 0048 0054 0048 004F 004E

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

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

35464649374254424948

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1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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