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Evaporite

Definition: Evaporite

Evaporite

Noun

1. The sediment that is left after the evaporation of seawater.

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

"Evaporite" is a common misspelling or typo for: evaporate, evaporated.

Specialty Definitions: Evaporite

DomainDefinitions

Mining

A nonclastic sedimentary rock composed primarily of minerals produced from a saline solution as a result of extensive or total evaporation of the solvent. Examples include gypsum, anhydrite, rock salt, primary dolomite, and various nitrates and borates. The term sometimes includes rocks developed by metamorphism or transport of other evaporites.Syn:evaporate; saline deposit; saline residue. (references)

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Synonyms: Evaporite

Synonyms by domain: aqueous rock (geography), hydatogenous rock, hydrogenetic rock.

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Crosswords: Evaporite

Specialty definitions using "evaporite": salt dome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Evaporite

DomainTitle

Books

  • Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the Otto Fiord formation : a major Mississippian-Pennsylvanian evaporite of subaqueous origin in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (reference)

  • Evaporite Sediments and Rocks: The Calcium Sulphate and Halite Facies (reference)

  • Lithology of Evaporite Cycles and Cycle Boundaries in the Upper Part of the Paradox Formation of the Hermosa Group of Pennsylvanian Age in the paradox (reference)

  • Late Cenozoic Evaporite Tectonism and Volcanism in West-Central Colorado (Special Papers (Geological Society of America), 366.) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Evaporite

"Evaporite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Evaporite" is used about 9 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
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

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

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Derivations: Evaporite

Derivations

Words beginning with "evaporite": evaporites. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Evaporite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: operative.

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-o-p-r-t-v"

-2 letters: operate, overapt, overate, overeat, overtip, peatier, private.

-3 letters: opiate, pareve, pavior, pereia, pirate, privet, protea, protei, repave, repeat, retape, revote, verite, vetoer, viator.

-4 letters: aerie, aiver, aport, apter, arete, atrip, avert, eater, etape, evert, evite, irate, oater, opera, orate, ovate, overt, pareo, parve, parvo, pater, patio, paver, peart, perea, peter, pieta, pivot, prate.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-o-p-r-t-v"
 

+1 letter: evaporites, operatives, pejorative.

 

+2 letters: cooperative, evaporative, explorative, inoperative, operatively, pejoratives, personative, prerogative, procreative, reprobative.

 

+3 letters: cooperatives, nonoperative, overemphatic, pejoratively, performative, preoperative, prerogatived, prerogatives, preservation.

 

+4 letters: contraceptive, convertiplane, cooperatively, exploratively, extrapolative, interpolative, operativeness, overoperating, performatives, perseveration, postoperative, preservations, proliferative, reciprocative, uncooperative.

 

+5 letters: contraceptives, convertiplanes, interoperative, noncooperative, overcapacities, overcapitalize, overcomplicate, perseverations, predevaluation, preoperatively, superelevation.

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Alternative Orthography: Evaporite


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

45 76 61 70 6F 72 69 74 65

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 01110110 01100001 01110000 01101111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#118 &#97 &#112 &#111 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0076 0061 0070 006F 0072 0069 0074 0065

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

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

398867828184758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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