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ASTRO

Specialty Definition: ASTRO

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

A prefix meaning star or stars and, by extension, sometimes used as the equivalent of celestial , as in astro nautics. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ASTRO

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ASTRO

EnglishAutonomous space transporter and robotic orbiterN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ASTRO

Non-English Usage: "ASTRO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Esperanto (heavenly body), French (place, room, space), Italian (aster, celestial body, star), Portuguese (heavenly body, luminary, star, world), Spanish (luminary, star).

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Modern Usage: ASTRO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Astro! If I wanted a bath I'd take a shower! (The Jetsons; writing credit: Aarne Tarkas)

Movie/TV Titles

El Astro del tango (1940)

O Astro (1977)

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

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Commercial Usage: ASTRO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Astro Agenda 2003 Calendar (reference)

  • Astro Boy (Volume 2) (reference)

  • Astro Boy Volume 7 (reference)

  • Astro Bunnies (reference)

  • Chevrolet Astro & Gmc Safari Mini-Vans Automotive Repair Manual: 1985 Thru 1998 (Haynes Automotive Repair Manual Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: ASTRO

Computer Images:
ASTRO

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Photo Album: ASTRO

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Astro camp at Pop Lake, Alaska. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Portable observing tripod made of poplar Astro party of C. V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

High-centered at Station Rice Vern Burns with shovel Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Richard Cohen demonstrating use of shovel Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Vern Burns determining rough azimuth prior to Wild T-4 setup Astro party of Albert E. Theberge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Time for a haircut - Carey V. Hodgson reading paper and getting a trim Astro party of Carey V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp on Necker Island in Mid-Pacific Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp on eastern Lisianski Island Island was station for World Longitude Campaign Nesting place for albatross and other marine bird species Astro party of E. J. Brown. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Camp at Station Sturgeon Point at onset of winter Astro party of Ralph Pfau. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Charles Whitten as a young field engineer flipping a flapjack Astro party of Charles Whitten He is commemorated by the Whitten Medal of the American Geophysical Union. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: ASTRO

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Malaysia

ASTRO, a direct-to-viewer satellite service, is also available in the country. (references)

Malaysia

MEGA TV offers five channels including CNN and ESPN; ASTRO, a satellite service, provides 20 TV channels as well as 8 radio channels. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ASTRO

"ASTRO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "ASTRO" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%6143,867
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: ASTRO

Expressions using "ASTRO": astro altitude astro compass astro dome. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ASTRO": astro-archaeology, Astro-b, Astro-c, astro-navigational, astro-physicists, astro-physics, Astro-tarot, astro-tracker, astro-turf.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASTRO

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

abby astro

898

astro shield

41

astro

869

chevrolet astro used

41

astro boy

211

houston astro

37

astro van

196

abby astro horoscope

35

astro turf

163

astro bingo

34

chevrolet astro

131

man or astro man

31

astro jump

116

astro med

30

chevy astro

109

astro glide

28

astro world

104

six flag astro world

27

astro jax

96

astro pneumatic

26

chevy astro van

88

assembler astro

24

astro jacks

79

astro horoscope

24

astro boat

68

custom astro van

24

astro malaysia

60

astro physics

23

astro spectrum

52

new astro

21

astro communication services

50

gateway astro

21

astro projection

49

buy chevrolet astro

21

astro canadian chevrolet chiltons cover gmc manual model repair safari u.s

48

astro diet

21

chevrolet astro van

48

astro ria

21

abbey astro

44

astro jax trick

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ASTRO

Language Translations for "ASTRO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

astronomisk-gravimetrisk nivellement (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

astronomisch-gravimetrische waterpassing (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

astro-gravimetrinen vaaitus (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

French

  

nivellement astro-gravimétrique (astro-gravimetric levelling), coupole vitrée (astrodome, brit astro hatch). (various references)

   

German

  

astronomisch-gravimetrisches Nivellement (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αστροθόλοσ (astro dome). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

天"物理学 (astro-physics), アステカ族 (ASPAC, asparagus, asterisk, astringent, astringent lotion, Astrodome, astrology, astronaut, astro-rama, Aztec). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アストロラマ (astro-rama), て"たいぶつりがく (astro-physics). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

astroay

   

Portuguese

  

nivelamento astro-gravimétrico (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

имеющая космические корабли (astro power), держава (astro power, power, superpower). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

astro-tražilac (astro-tracker), astrokompas (astro compass), visina (altitude, astro altitude, elevation, height, highness, inches, level, tallness). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nivelación astrogravimétrica (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

astronomisk-geodetisk nivåmätning (astro-gravimetric levelling). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ASTRO

Derivations

Words beginning with "ASTRO": astrobiologies, astrobiologist, astrobiologists, astrobiology, astrocyte, astrocytes, astrocytic, astrocytoma, astrocytomas, astrocytomata, astrodome, astrodomes, astrolabe, astrolabes, astrologer, astrologers, astrological, astrologically, astrologies, astrology, astrometric, astrometries, astrometry, astronaut, astronautic, astronautical, astronautically, astronautics, astronauts, astronomer, astronomers, astronomic, astronomical, astronomically, astronomies, astronomy, astrophotograph, astrophotographer, astrophotographers, astrophotographies, astrophotographs, astrophotography, astrophysical, astrophysically, astrophysicist, astrophysicists, astrophysics. (additional references)

Words containing "ASTRO": anastrophe, anastrophes, archaeoastronomies, archaeoastronomy, catastrophe, catastrophes, catastrophic, catastrophically, catastrophism, catastrophisms, catastrophist, catastrophists, diastrophic, diastrophically, diastrophism, diastrophisms, disastrous, disastrously, ecocatastrophe, ecocatastrophes, enterogastrone, enterogastrones, gastrocnemii, gastrocnemius, gastroduodenal, gastroenteritides, gastroenteritis, gastroenterological, gastroenterologies, gastroenterologist, gastroenterologists, gastroenterology, gastroesophageal, gastrointestinal, gastrolith, gastroliths, gastronome, gastronomes, gastronomic, gastronomical, gastronomically, gastronomies, gastronomist, gastronomists, gastronomy, gastropod, gastropods, gastroscope, gastroscopes, gastroscopic, gastroscopies. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ASTRO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ratos, roast, rotas, taros, toras.

Words within the letters "a-o-r-s-t"

-1 letter: arts, oars, oast, oats, orts, osar, rato, rats, rota, rots, soar, sora, sort, star, stoa, taos, taro, tars, tora, tors, tsar.

-2 letters: ars, art, oar, oat, ora, ors, ort, ras, rat, rot, sat, sot, tao, tar, tas, tor.

-3 letters: ar, as, at, or, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-o-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: aborts, actors, aorist, aortas, argots, aristo, assort, boarts, castor, costar, gators, groats, korats, oaters, orates, ottars, pastor, ratios, roasts, rostra, sartor, satori, scrota, stator, storax, stroma, tabors, tarocs, taroks, tarots, tolars, torahs, troaks, tronas.

 

+2 letters: abators, aerosat, airpost, alastor, amorist, aorists, aristos, aroints, aroynts, assorts, atoners, attorns, authors, boaster, boaters, borates, borstal, cantors, captors, carrots, cartons, castors, cavorts, coaster, coaters, contras, costard, costars, cottars, cratons, dotards, earshot, esparto, factors, formats, garotes, harlots, maestro, marmots, matrons, mortals, mortars, natrons, nonarts, oralist, orators, orgeats, ostiary, ostmark, ostraca, outsoar, outwars, oxcarts, parrots, partons, pastors, patrols, patrons, portals, postwar, proteas, quartos, rabatos, ragouts, ragtops, raptors, rations, ratoons, rattons, rebatos, rialtos, roasted, roaster, robusta, roseate, rostral, rotates, rubatos, santour, sartors, satoris, sautoir, scrotal, seaport, senator, shortia, sorbate, stardom, stators, storage, stromal, surcoat, tabours, tailors, tarpons, thorias, throats, toaster, torsade, torulas, towards, transom, travois, treason, trocars, troikas, tsardom, turacos, viators.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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