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CONTACT NOISE

Specialty Definition: CONTACT NOISE

DomainDefinition

Electrical Engineering

A noise heard in telephones due to excessively large currents passing through carbon granule microphone capsules. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: CONTACT NOISE

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

Danish

  

kontaktstøj (frying, frying noise), knasen (crackle, fizzing, frying, frying noise, sizzle, sizzling, spitting, sputtering). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

contactruis (frying, frying noise), lijngeruis (frying, frying noise). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kytkentärätinä (frying, frying noise), kytkentäkohina (frying, frying noise). (various references)

   

French

  

grésillement, friture, bruit de friture. (various references)

   

German

  

Rauschen (boom, hiss, murmur, murmuring, noise, resound, roar, rush, rustle, sough, sweep, swish, swoosh, whoosh), Prasseln (clatter, crackle, crepitate, drum, hail down, patter, rattle, rattling, roar, to crackle), Kontaktgeräusch (frying, frying noise). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

θόρυβος επαφής (frying, frying noise), θόρυβος του ακουστικού του τηλεφώνου (frying, frying noise), "βράσιμο" τηλεφώνου. (various references)

   

Italian

  

rumore di contatto (frying, frying noise), ronzio (buzz, buzzing, drone, hum, humming, rumbling, whir, zoom). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontactcay oisenay

   

Portuguese

  

ruído de contacto (frying, frying noise). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ruido de fritura (frying, frying noise), ruido de contacto (frying, frying noise). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CONTACT NOISE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: consociate, nonascetic.

-3 letters: coactions, conations, cotenants, intonates, isooctane, notations, taconites, tectonics.

-4 letters: acetonic, aconites, actinons, ancients, canniest, canoeist, canonise, canonist, coaction, cocaines, cocottes, coenacts, conation, conceits, concents, connects, connotes, constant, contacts, contains, contents, cooncans, coonties, cosecant, cotenant, ecstatic, enations, entastic, insectan, instance, intonate, nictates, notation, occasion, oscitant, ostinato, sanction, sonantic, sonatine, sonicate, stannite.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-i-n-n-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: concatenations, concentrations, contraceptions, counteractions.

 

+3 letters: concretizations.

 

+4 letters: counterreactions, deconcentrations, reconcentrations.

 

+5 letters: contradictoriness, counteraccusation, countercomplaints.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

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