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EV

Definition: EV

EV

Noun

1. A unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "eV" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Specialty Definitions: EV

DomainDefinitions

Energy

A vehicle powered by electricity,usually provided by batteries but may also be provided by photovoltaic (solar) cellsor a fuel cell. (ELECTRIC VEHICLE). (references)

Space

Electron volt, a measure of the energy of subatomic particles. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: EV

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

eV

EnglishElectron voltN/A

eV

FrenchElectronvoltN/A

eV

GermanElektron(en)voltN/A

EV

ItalianOgniTransportation

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: EV

Synonym: electron volt (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: EV

Specialty definitions using "eV": electron-voltgamma raysHYBRID VEHICLENeutron, thermal. (references)
Non-English Usage: "EV" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (age, century, epoch), Turkish (accommodation unit, crib, domestic, domicil, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, dwelling place, habitation, hangout, home, house, household, housing, inhabitation, place, residence, rooms, settlement).

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Modern Usage: EV

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

EV Nova (2002)

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

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Commercial Usage: EV

DomainTitle

Books

  • Market Guide / ProVestor Plus Company Report for Eaton Vance Corp. - EV [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • The Everything Dreams Book: From Fantasies to Nightmares, What Your Dreams Mean, How to Remember Them, and How They Affect Your Everyday Life (The ev (reference)

  • Thermodynamic and Optical Properties of Ionized Gases at Temperatures to 100 Ev (reference)

  • Workshop on Observing Giant Air Showers from > 10(20) Ev Particles from Space (Aip Conference Proceedings , Vol 433) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: EV

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Gee -- thanks Ev!.Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Usage Frequency: EV

"EV" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 46.11% of the time. "EV" is used about 193 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items46.11%8934,931
Noun (proper)20.21%3955,036
Noun (common)19.69%3855,818
Noun (singular)12.44%2471,196
Adjective (general or positive)1.55%3202,518
                    Total100.00%193N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: EV

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "eV": ev-ev-ev-ever.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EV

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

  ev

288

  epson ev

7

  ev nova

80

  casio ev 670

7

  ev speaker

66

  code ev nova

7

  ev kiralik

14

  dekorasyon ev

7

  ev nova serial

13

  casio ev 4500

7

  ev prefabrik

13

  ev part

6

  converse ev pro

13

  kiralik ev

6

  satilik ev

12

  ev global motor

6

  ev override

11

  ev c200

6

  ev warrior

10

  ev tekstili

6

  ev 1

10

  14 ev

6

  ev pro

10

  ev kütük

6

  ev battery

9

  ev car

6

  toyota rav4 ev

9

  1.0.4 ev nova

6

  cheat ev nova

9

  ev hill

6

  ev logistics

9

  code ev nova registration

5

  ev rav4

9

  ev sparrow

5

  ev world

8

  ev ford ranger

5

  ev microphone

8

  ev free fullerton

5

  dekorasyonu ev

8

  ev motor

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

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Modern Translations: EV

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

Russian 

  

Ñлектронвольт. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: EV

Derivations

Words beginning with "eV": evacuant, evacuants, evacuate, evacuated, evacuates, evacuating, evacuation, evacuations, evacuative, evacuee, evacuees, evadable, evade, evaded, evader, evaders, evades, evadible, evading, evagination, evaginations, evaluate, evaluated, evaluates, evaluating, evaluation, evaluations, evaluative, evaluator, evaluators, evanesce, evanesced, evanescence, evanescences, evanescent, evanesces, evanescing, evangel, evangelic, evangelical, evangelically, evangelicals, evangelism, evangelisms, evangelist, evangelistic, evangelistically, evangelists, evangelization, evangelizations, evangelize. (additional references)

Words ending with "eV": dev, ganev, lev, maglev, rev, tolarjev. (additional references)

Words containing "eV": abbreviate, abbreviated, abbreviates, abbreviating, abbreviation, abbreviations, abbreviator, abbreviators, achievable, achieve, achieved, achievement, achievements, achiever, achievers, achieves, achieving, aggrieve, aggrieved, aggrievedly, aggrievement, aggrievements, aggrieves, aggrieving, alevin, alevins, alleviate, alleviated, alleviates, alleviating, alleviation, alleviations, alleviator, alleviators, antevert, anteverted, anteverting, anteverts, antidevelopment, antievolution, antievolutionary, antievolutionism, antievolutionisms, antievolutionist, antievolutionists, antirevolutionaries, antirevolutionary, asseverate, asseverated, asseverates, asseverating. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EV

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "e-v"
 

+1 letter: ave, dev, eve, lev, rev, vee, veg, vet, vex, vie, voe.

 

+2 letters: aver, aves, bevy, cave, cove, deva, devs, dive, dove, eave, envy, even, ever, eves, evil, fave, five, gave, give, gyve, have, hive, hove, jive, lave, leva, levo, levy, live, love, move, nave, neve, nevi, oven, over, pave, rave, revs, rive, rove, save, uvea, vale, vane, vase, veal, veep, veer, vees, veil, vein, vela, veld, vena, vend, vent, vera, verb, vert, very, vest, veto, vets, vext, vibe, vice, vide, vied, vier, vies, view, vile, vine, vise, vive, voes, vole, vote, wave, wive, wove.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EV


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

45 56

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    ...-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000101 01010110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#86

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0056

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

3956

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Abbreviations
12. Acronyms
13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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