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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The trapping of an electromagnetic wave, in a waveguide action, between two layers of the atmosphere, or between a layer of the atmosphere and the earth's surface. See refractivity, total refraction.Ducting is likely to occur where the gradient of the index of refraction exceeds 48 N-units per 1000 feet of altitude. (references) |
Mining | Sections of air duct. See also:ventilation tubing. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DUCTING |
| Specialty definitions using "DUCTING": duct propulsion, duct-ventilated ♦ ECONOMIZER AIR ♦ forced auxiliary ventilation ♦ Pouff port ♦ ventilation ducts, Venturi blower. (references) |
| "DUCTING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "DUCTING" is used about 14 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.71% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "DUCTING": con-ducting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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. |
| Language | Translations for "DUCTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | spiragaine (spirally reinforced soft duct, spirally reinforced soft ducting). (various references) | |
German | Spirallutte (spirally reinforced soft duct, spirally reinforced soft ducting). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízvezeték (aqueduct, conduit, water-conduit). (various references) | |
Italian | condotta per l'aria con rinforzi interni costituiti da spirali metalliche (spirally reinforced soft duct, spirally reinforced soft ducting). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uctingday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "DUCTING": ductings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "DUCTING": abducting, adducting, conducting, deducting, inducting, misconducting, nonconducting, reinducting, semiconducting, subducting, superconducting. (additional references) | |
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"DUCTING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: docting, doucting, Duchin, ducti, dueting, dulcitone. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: induct. | |
-2 letters: cuing, cutin, tunic. | |
-3 letters: ding, dint, duci, duct, duit, dung, dunt, guid, ting, tung, unci, unit. | |
-4 letters: cig, cud, cut, dig, din, dit, dug, dui, dun, gid, gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, nit, nut, tic, tin, tug, tui, tun. | |
-5 letters: id, in, it, nu, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-g-i-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: ductings. | |
+2 letters: abducting, adducting, deducting, educating, inducting, traducing. | |
+3 letters: conducting, outchiding, outdancing, subducting, undogmatic. | |
+4 letters: acidulating, centrifuged, decussating, destructing, discounting, documenting, duplicating, elucidating, fecundating, geniculated, introducing, outscolding, reeducating, reinducting, transducing, underacting, woodcutting. | |
+5 letters: adjudicating, edulcorating, miseducating, nightclubbed, outproducing, undercoating, undercutting, woodcuttings. | |
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