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Eclipsis

Definition: Eclipsis

Eclipsis

Noun

1. Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences.

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

Synonym: Eclipsis

Synonym: ellipsis (n). (additional references)

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Photo Album: Eclipsis

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Eclipsis Solaris.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eclipsis

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

eclipsis

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eclipsis

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

Manx

  

stronnaghey (nasalize, sniff, snivel, snort, snuffle). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eclipsisay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Eclipsis

Derivations

Words beginning with "eclipsis": eclipsises. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Eclipsis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-i-i-l-p-s-s"

-1 letter: splices.

-2 letters: plisse, slices, slipes, speils, spices, spiels, spiles, splice.

-3 letters: ceils, clips, epics, isles, issei, lisps, pilei, piles, pilis, plies, sepic, sices, sipes, slice, slipe, slips, specs, speil, spice, spics, spiel, spies, spile.

-4 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, cess, clip, epic, ices, isle, leis, less, lice, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, pecs, pice, pics, pies, pile, pili, piss, plie, psis, secs, seis, sels, sice, sics, sipe, sips, slip, spec, spic.

-5 letters: cel, cep, cis, els, ess, ice, lei, lie, lip, lis, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi, sec, sei, sel, sic, sip, sis.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-i-i-l-p-s-s"
 

+1 letter: disciples, simplices.

 

+2 letters: colpitises, eclipsises, publicises, specialise, specialism, specialist.

 

+3 letters: capitalises, disciplines, discophiles, pediculosis, plasticines, plasticizes, plebiscites, polemicists, politicises, prickliness, specialised, specialises, specialisms, specialists, specializes, specialties.

 

+4 letters: discipleship, discipliners, explicitness, implicitness, lickspittles, multispecies, plasticities, plasticizers, princeliness, prolificness, simplicities, specialising, specialistic, specialities, supercilious.

 

+5 letters: discipleships, indisciplines, insusceptible, insusceptibly, necrophilisms, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nonspecialist, personalistic, physicalities, pictorialness, piscicultures, pricklinesses, specularities, subdiscipline, subspecialist, subspecialize.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Eclipsis


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

45 63 6C 69 70 73 69 73

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

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

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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 01100011 01101100 01101001 01110000 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#99 &#108 &#105 &#112 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0063 006C 0069 0070 0073 0069 0073

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

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

3969787582857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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