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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Cron |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CRON |
| Non-English Usage: "CRON" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Manx (blemish, draw, frame, job lot, portion, scar, speck, spot, stain, stigma), Scottish (blame, defect, evil, fault, harm, mischief). |
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CRON" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cron | Last name | 1,000 | 12,242 |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cron | 92 | cron howto | 3 |
cron job | 27 | cron disease | 2 |
cron window | 15 | cron tutorial | 2 |
cron unix | 9 | 2000 cron window | 2 |
cron diet | 5 | cron houston | 2 |
cron job server | 5 | cron vixie | 2 |
cron linux | 4 | cron nt | 2 |
command cron from running top | 3 | cron scheduling | 2 |
cron job unix | 3 | cron walter | 2 |
cron php | 3 | cron solaris | 2 |
command cron | 3 | cron group | 2 |
cron morbus | 3 | cron management | 2 |
cron o talk | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CRON": crone, crones, cronies, crony, cronyism, cronyisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CRON": bicron, chylomicron, macron, micron, millimicron, omicron, submicron. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CRON": acronic, acronym, acronymic, acronymically, acronyms, bicrons, chylomicrons, macrons, macronuclear, macronuclei, macronucleus, macronucleuses, macronutrient, macronutrients, micronize, micronized, micronizes, micronizing, microns, micronuclei, micronucleus, micronucleuses, micronutrient, micronutrients, millimicrons, mucronate, mucrones, omicrons. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corn. | |
| Words within the letters "c-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: con, cor, nor, orc, roc. | |
-2 letters: no, on, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: acorn, bronc, corns, cornu, corny, crone, crony, croon, crown, narco, orcin, racon, recon, scorn. | |
+2 letters: acorns, anchor, archon, bicorn, bicron, bronco, broncs, candor, cantor, carbon, carton, censor, citron, cloner, coiner, concur, condor, confer, conger, conker, conner, contra, corban, cordon, coring, cornea, corned, cornel, corner, cornet, cornua, cornus, corona, cortin, craton, crayon, crepon, crones, croons, croton, crowns, encore, garcon, ironic, macron, micron, narcos, nordic, orcein, orcins, racons, racoon, rancho, rancor, reckon, recoin, recons, scorns, uncork, zircon. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 52 4F 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010010 01001111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C R O N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0052 004F 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37524948 |
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