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BLACK LIGHT

Specialty Definition: BLACK LIGHT

DomainDefinition

Mining

A. A prospector's and miner's term for ultraviolet light, used in exploration and evaluation to detect mineral fluorescence b. An instrument, usually portable, that produces ultraviolet light forthis purpose. See also:lamp. (references)

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

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Crosswords: BLACK LIGHT

Specialty definitions using "BLACK LIGHT": NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTER. (references)

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Modern Usage: BLACK LIGHT

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's the weird color-scheme that freaks me. Every time you try to operate one of these weird black controls, which are labeled in black on a black background, a small black light lights up black to let you know you've done it! (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

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

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Commercial Usage: BLACK LIGHT

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Books

  

Music

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

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Image Slideshow: BLACK LIGHT

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLACK LIGHT

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

black light

696

black light skinned woman

7

black light poster

426

black light stuff

7

black light paint

58

black light bubble

7

black light bulb

46

cheap black light

7

black light tattoo

35

48 black light

7

car black light

23

cat urine and black light

7

black light picture

17

black light product

7

black light power

17

black light fixture

6

portable black light

15

hand held black light

6

black light puppet

15

black light tapestry

6

black light ink

13

black light pen

6

black light accessory

12

black light marker

6

fluorescent black light

11

black light body paint

6

black light flashlight

11

black light scorpion

5

black light led

10

black light pic

5

black light carpet

10

wholesale black light

5

black light skinned

9

aquarium black light

5

uv black light

9

black light theater

5

black light art

9

black light for sale

5

black light lamp

8

black light skin woman

5

black light contact

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BLACK LIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-g-h-i-k-l-l-t"

-1 letter: backlight.

-3 letters: backlit, thallic.

-4 letters: alight, bhakti, blight, chital, gallic, glitch, kiblah, klatch, thalli.

-5 letters: aitch, baith, batch, batik, bight, bitch, black, chalk, chill, glial, habit, kibla, laich, laigh, laith, latch, lathi, licht, light, lilac, thack, thick, thill, tical, tilak.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLACK LIGHT


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

42 4C 41 43 4B      4C 49 47 48 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

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

01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#32 &#76 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0043 004B      004C 0049 0047 0048 0054

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

364635374524643414254

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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