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"ELECTROLYTES" is a plural of: electrolyte. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Substances that break up into ions (electrically charged particles) when they are dissolved in body fluids or water. Some examples are sodium, potassium, chloride, and calcium. Electrolytes are primarily responsible for the movement of nutrients into cells, and the movement of wastes out of cells. (references) |
Public Administration | Sodium, potassium, chloride, that exist in a balanced state in the blood and body fluids and which must be replaced intravenously in case of loss, e. g. following haemorrhage or shock. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ELECTROLYTES |
| English words defined with "ELECTROLYTES": ECF, electrolyte, electrolyte balance, extracellular fluid ♦ heat exhaustion, heat prostration ♦ oliguria ♦ prostration. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ELECTROLYTES": Cholera Toxin ♦ deflocculating ♦ electrical prospecting, electrodialysis ♦ Follicular Fluid ♦ galvanic corrosion ♦ hydrophobe ♦ Parenteral Nutrition, Total, Polygeline. (references) |
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Screenplays | If it has to taste like this, I don't care if my electrolytes are imbalanced or not. (2010; writing credit: Arthur C. Clarke; Peter Hyams) | |
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Health | Treatment involves replacing lost fluids and electrolytes. (references) | |
Its composition includes bile acids and salts, cholesterol, and electrolytes. (references) | ||
Children may need an oral rehydration solution to replace lost fluids and electrolytes. (references) | ||
Business | These comprise the tests of bodily substances -- such as those of glucose, enzymes, electrolytes, proteins, and lipids -- that are measured as overall indicators of a patient's health status; Immuno-chemistry systems and their reagents accounted for 23 percent, or $124 million; Instruments accounted for 17 percent, or $92 million; Infectious-immunology systems and their reagents accounted for 12 percent, or $65 million; Hematology systems and their reagents accounted for 10 percent, or $54 million. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ELECTROLYTES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 97.06% of the time. "ELECTROLYTES" is used about 68 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 |
| Noun (plural) | 97.06% | 66 | 41,290 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ELECTROLYTES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | elektrolytter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | elektrolyten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | elektrolyytti (electrolyte). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | électrolytes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Elektrolyten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ηλεκτρολύτες. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | elettroliti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | electrolytesay electrólitos. (various references) electrolitos. (various references) elektrolyter. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words ending with "ELECTROLYTES": nonelectrolytes, polyelectrolytes. (additional references) | |
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"ELECTROLYTES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elctrolyte, electrolights, electrolite, electrolites, electrolytics, electroyte, lectrolyte. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-l-l-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: electrolyte. | |
-2 letters: corselette. | |
-3 letters: electrets, tercelets. | |
-4 letters: corselet, electors, electret, electros, reelects, resettle, secretly, selectly, selector, solleret, tercelet, trolleys. | |
-5 letters: celeste, closely, clyster, collets, colters, corslet, costrel, cotters, creoles, elector, electro, erectly, erosely, eyelets, eyesore, lectors, letters, lottery, reelect, restyle, retells, roselle, rosette, secrete, settler, settlor, soleret, sterlet, teeters, teleost, tellers, tercels, tercets, tersely, tetryls. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-l-l-o-r-s-t-t-y" | |
+3 letters: nonelectrolytes. | |
+4 letters: polyelectrolytes. | |
| 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)45 4C 45 43 54 52 4F 4C 59 54 45 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .-.. . -.-. - .-. --- .-.. -.--. - . ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001100 01000101 01000011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001100 01011001 01010100 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E L E C T R O L Y T E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 004C 0045 0043 0054 0052 004F 004C 0059 0054 0045 0053 |
| 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)394639375452494659543953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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