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Definition: Epicentre |
EpicentreNoun1. The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Point on the earth's surface which is directly above the focus of an earthquake. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: EpicentreSynonym: epicenter (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Epicentre |
| Specialty definitions using "epicentre": focal depth. (references) |
| "Epicentre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Epicentre" is used about 38 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 (singular) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
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 |
epicentre | 39 |
diego epicentre san | 11 |
epicentre mesa mira | 5 |
epicentre technology | 4 |
earth epicentre quake | 2 |
epicentre online.com | 2 |
epicentre restaurant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "epicentre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | epiqendër. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المركز السطحي, بؤرة زلزالي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | епицентър. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 震央 (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | epicentrum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | epicentrum (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | epicentrum (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | episentrumi (epicenter), pintakeskus (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | épicentre (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Epizentrum (epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επίκεντρο (epicenter, focal point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | epicentrum (epicentrum, ground zero). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pusat gempa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | epicentro (epicenter, epicentrum, focus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 震源 (earthquake centre, epicenter), 震央 (earthquake centre, epicenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"おう (earthquake centre, epicenter, esoteric doctrines, mysteries), し"'" (advice, counsel, earthquake centre, epicenter, maxim, proposal, proverb, solemn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 진앙. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cheshvean (dead centre, nucleus, orthocentre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | epicentreay epicentro (epicenter, epicentrum, Epicure). (various references) эпицентр (epicenter). (various references) epicentar. (various references) epicentro (epicenter, epicentrum). (various references) epicentrum (epicenter). (various references) merkez üssü (epicenter, epicentrum), deprem merkezi (epicenter, epicentrum), can alıcı nokta (epicenter, epicentrum, quick, tender spot, the most sensitive spot). (various references) епіцентр (epicenter, epicentrum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: epicenter. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: prentice, pretence, terpenic. | |
-2 letters: creepie, enteric, enticer, epicene, percent, precent, preteen, receipt, teenier, terpene. | |
-3 letters: center, centre, cerite, cretin, entice, entire, entree, eterne, incept, pecten, pectin, peerie, piecer, pierce, pincer, prince, pterin, recent, recept, recipe, recite, repent, repine, retene, retine, teener, tenrec, tierce, triene. | |
-4 letters: citer, creep, crepe, crept, cripe, eerie, enter, erect, inept. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-i-n-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: epicenters, percentile, pertinence. | |
+2 letters: centerpiece, intercepted, intercepter, percentiles, persistence, pertinences, preelecting, preelection, preerecting, reinspected, unreceptive. | |
+3 letters: centerpieces, decipherment, encipherment, impertinence, intemperance, intercepters, interspecies, persistences, pertinencies, petrogenetic, preelections, preexistence, prepotencies, preselecting, preselection, unperceptive. | |
+4 letters: decipherments, encipherments, imperfectness, impertinences, intemperances, interepidemic, interoceptive, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, persistencies, preanesthetic, preexistences, preselections, presentencing, receptiveness, superinfected. | |
+5 letters: chemoreception, complementizer, hyperefficient, hyperenergetic, hyperexcretion, hypersecretion, impertinencies, nephrectomized, nephrectomizes, pectinesterase, perceptiveness, perfectiveness, postexperience, preanesthetics, presentencings, protectiveness, respectiveness, superefficient, teleprocessing. | |
| 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 70 69 63 65 6E 74 72 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). .--. .. -.-. . -. - .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110000 01101001 01100011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E p i c e n t r e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0070 0069 0063 0065 006E 0074 0072 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)398275697180868471 |
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