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Equals Sign

Definition: Equals Sign

Equals Sign

Noun

1. A sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal.

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

Synonyms within Context: Equals Sign

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Indication	Keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter, italics, sublineation, underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation, reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets, hachure; quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis, "("; right parenthesis, ")"; opening bracket, ""; left curly brace, "{"; right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, ""; right arrow, ""; forward slash, "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, ""; hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign, "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma, ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~".
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translations: Equals Sign

Language		Translations for "equals sign"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		egyenlőségjel (equal sign). (various references)

Pig Latin		equalsay ignsay

Swedish		likhetstecken (equal sign, sign of equality). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Equals Sign

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-q-s-s-u"
	-1 letter: squealing.
	-2 letters: equaling, gainless, glassine, inulases, leasings, quinelas, ugliness.
	-3 letters: angelus, glassie, guineas, gunless, gunsels, inulase, lagunes, langues, leasing, ligases, linages, linguae, nilgaus, quassin, quinela, salines, sealing, sensual, sequins, signals, silages, silanes, silenus, singles, squeals, unagile, unseals.
	-4 letters: aisles, algins, aliens, aligns, alines, angels, angles, anises, anuses, assign, easing, elains, equals, genial, genius, gleans.
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.

Alternative Orthography: Equals Sign

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

45 71 75 61 6C 73 53 69 67 6E

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

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

01000101 01110001 01110101 01100001 01101100 01110011 00100000 01010011 01101001 01100111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#113 &#117 &#97 &#108 &#115 &#32 &#83 &#105 &#103 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0071 0075 0061 006C 0073 0053 0069 0067 006E

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

398387677885253757380

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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