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Definition: Astigmia |
AstigmiaNoun1. (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea. 2. (optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: AstigmiaSynonym: astigmatism (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: stigmatism (n). (additional references) |
| 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 |
astigmia | 3 |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "astigmia": astigmias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-i-m-s-t" | |
-1 letter: imagist. | |
-2 letters: amigas, stigma, taigas. | |
-3 letters: agism, agist, agmas, amias, amiga, atmas, gaits, gamas, maist, mitis, saiga, sigma, staig, taiga, tamis. | |
-4 letters: agas, agma, aims, aits, amas, amia, amis, atma, gait, gama, gams, gast, gats, gist, gits, magi, mags, mast, mats, migs, mist, saga, sati, sima, smit, stag, tags, tams. | |
-5 letters: aas, aga, aim, ais. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-i-m-s-t" | |
+1 letter: astigmias. | |
+2 letters: astigmatic, magazinist. | |
+3 letters: anatomising, astigmatics, astigmatism, dramatising, madrigalist, magazinists, magisterial, magnificats, masticating, midsagittal, misadapting, stalagmitic. | |
+4 letters: anastigmatic, assimilating, astigmatisms, diamagnetism, disambiguate, imaginations, madrigalists, magistracies, marginations, megavitamins, pragmaticism, pragmaticist, pragmatistic, thingamajigs, traumatising. | |
+5 letters: acclimatising, diamagnetisms, disambiguated, disambiguates, emarginations, epigrammatism, epigrammatist, imagistically, magisterially, magistratical, magnanimities, mainstreaming, malariologist, marginalities, materialising, metastasizing, misallocating, miscataloging, misevaluating, pragmaticisms, pragmaticists, stigmatically, vegetarianism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 73 74 69 67 6D 69 61 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ... - .. --. -- .. .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100111 01101101 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A s t i g m i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0073 0074 0069 0067 006D 0069 0061 |
| 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)3585867573797567 |
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