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Ballottement

Definition: Ballottement

Ballottement

Noun

1. A palpatory technique for feeling a floating object in the body (especially for determining the position of a fetus by feeling the rebound of the fetus after a quick digital tap on the wall of the uterus).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ballottement

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

ballottement

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ballottement

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

Pig Latin

  

allottementbay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ballottement

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-l-m-n-o-t-t-t"

-2 letters: battlement.

-3 letters: allotment, battement.

-4 letters: abetment, allottee, ballonet, bonemeal, embattle, mantelet, matelote, meltable, nettable, teetotal.

-5 letters: bellman, bellmen, boatmen, lambent, lomenta, mantlet, matelot, notable, omental, telamon, teleman, tenable, tollman, tollmen, tomenta, tonette, totable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ballottement


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

42 61 6C 6C 6F 74 74 65 6D 65 6E 74

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 01101111 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#111 &#116 &#116 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 006C 006F 0074 0074 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

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

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

366778788186867179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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