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Definition: Ammoniacal |
AmmoniacalAdjective1. Pertaining to or containing or similar to ammonia. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AmmoniacalSynonym: ammoniac (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gaseity | Elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek, effluvium, flatus; cloud; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ammoniacal |
| English words defined with "ammoniacal": Ammoniacal engine ♦ Ethylamine ♦ Gas water ♦ Luteocobaltic chloride ♦ Methyl amine ♦ Piperidine ♦ Tar water. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ammoniacal": ammoniacal liquor ♦ Ethanolamine ♦ Hunt's process ♦ Sodium Glutamate. (references) |
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| "Ammoniacal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Ammoniacal" is used about 5 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ammoniacal": Ammoniacal engine ♦ Ammoniacal fermentation ♦ ammoniacal liquor ♦ ammoniacal solution ♦ ammoniacal water. 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 |
ammoniacal nitrogen | 3 |
ammoniacal etchants | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ammoniacal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشادري مؤلف من النشادر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ammoniakvand (ammoniacal liquor, aqua ammonia, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), raaammoniakvand (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor), hydraulikvand (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), gasvand (ammonia liquor, ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ammoniakwater (ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), ruw ammoniakwater (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ammoniakkivesi (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), ammoniakkiliuos (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), kaasuvesi (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ammoniaque (ammonia, ammonia liquor, ammonia solution, ammoniac, ammonium hydrate, ammonium hydroxide, anhydrous ammonia dissolved in water, aqua ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ammoniakwasser (ammonia liquor, ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), Ammoniakrohwasser (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor), ammoniakhaltiges Wasser (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), Spülwasser (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, dishwater, flushing liquor, liquor, rinsing water, wash, washing-up water, water for rinsing), Spülflüssigkeit (ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor), Kuehlerkondensat (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), Gaswasser (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, crude ammonia liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμμωνιακόν ύδωρ (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor), αμμωνιακό διάλυμα (ammoniacal solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | acqua ammoniacale (ammonia water, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, flushing liquor, liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 銅アンモニア法 (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうアンモニアほう (cuprous ammoniacal process). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammoniacalay amoniacal. (various references) amoníaco (ammonia, ammoniac). (various references) ammoniakvatten (ammonia liquor, ammoniacal liquor, condensate, crude ammonia liquor, flushing liquor, liquor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-m-n-o" | |
-2 letters: ammoniac, maniacal. | |
-3 letters: almanac, ammonal, ammonia, ammonic, limacon, mailman, manioca. | |
-4 letters: alnico, ammino, animal, anomic, caiman, calami, camail, camion, canola, lamina, maniac, manila, manioc, oilcan, oilman. | |
-5 letters: alamo, aloin, amain, amino, amnia, amnic, amnio, anima, canal, claim, coala, colin, comal, comma, lamia, lanai, liana, liman, linac, macon, malic, mania, manic, nicol. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-m-m-n-o" | |
+2 letters: megalomaniac, monomaniacal. | |
+3 letters: megalomaniacs. | |
+4 letters: megalomaniacal, monomaniacally, nongrammatical, nymphomaniacal. | |
+5 letters: accommodational, microanatomical, nonmathematical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6D 6F 6E 69 61 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -- --- -. .. .- -.-. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m m o n i a c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006D 006F 006E 0069 0061 0063 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35797981807567696778 |
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