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Definition: Cladistics |
CladisticsNoun1. A system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct trees summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cladistics" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references) |
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| "Cladistics" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Cladistics" is used about 4 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
cladistics | 12 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i-l-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: cladistic. | |
-2 letters: cladists, clastics, dialists, dicastic, sadistic, sciatics. | |
-3 letters: ascitic, cladist, classic, clastic, clitics, dialist, dicasts, distils, italics, scaldic, sciatic, sialids, silicas. | |
-4 letters: acidic, alcids, asdics, clasts, clitic, dicast, distal, distil, iliads, italic, lactic, sadist, scalds, sialic, sialid, silica, ticals, tsadis. | |
-5 letters: acids, adits, alcid, alist, asdic, cacti, cadis, caids, casts, cilia, cists, clads, class. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-i-i-l-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: clavichordists. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 61 64 69 73 74 69 63 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. .- -.. .. ... - .. -.-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100001 01100100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l a d i s t i c s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0061 0064 0069 0073 0074 0069 0063 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37786770758586756985 |
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