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Definition: Exoskeleton |
ExoskeletonNoun1. The exterior protective or supporting structure or shell of many animals (especially invertebrates) including bony or horny parts such as nails or scales or hoofs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | An articulated mechanism whose joints correspond to those of a human arm and, when attached to the arm of a human operator, will move in correspondence to his/her arm. Exoskeletal devices are sometimes instrumented and used for master-slave control of manipulators. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Exoskeleton |
| English words defined with "exoskeleton": apodeme, arthropod ♦ crustacean ♦ denticle, Dermoskeleton ♦ Exo, Exoskeletal ♦ sclerite. (references) |
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| "Exoskeleton" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exoskeleton" is used about 25 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% | 25 | 69,787 |
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 |
exoskeleton | 41 |
exoskeleton military | 3 |
darpa exoskeleton | 3 |
exoskeleton human | 2 |
exoskeleton reboot | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "exoskeleton"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | exoskeletal mekanisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | exoskelet (dermoskeleton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | raajojen nivelten sähkömekaaninen asennon mittausjärjestelmä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | exosquelette. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Exoskelett, Exoskeleton (dermoskeleton). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινηματικός επαναλήπτης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kitinváz. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | esoscheletro. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ushylagh mooie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | exoskeletonay exoesqueleto. (various references) exoskelettal mekanism. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "exoskeleton": exoskeletons. (additional references) | |
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"Exoskeleton" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ectoskeleton, exoskeieton, exoskeletal, exoskelton. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "exoskeleton" (pronounced e'ksōske"lutun) |
| 8 | -s k e" l u t u n | skeleton. |
| 6 | -e" l u t u n | gelatin. |
| 5 | -l u t u n | bulletin, charlatan, cosmopolitan, metropolitan. |
| 4 | -u t u n | biotin, lovastatin, puritan, Samaritan. |
| 3 | -t u n | actin, badminton, batten, beaten, begotten, bitten, Boston, boughten, Bouton, brighten, Burton, button, Canton, capstan, captain, carton, certain, chieftain, clandestine, cotton, craton, curtain, Dalton, dentin, dishearten, eaten, enlighten, fatten, flatten, forgotten, fountain, frighten, frostbitten, gluten, gotten, guncotton, handwritten, hearten, heighten, highfalutin, intermountain, intestine, jetton, kindergarten, kitten, lighten, litten, Manhattan, marten, Martin, Melton, misbegotten, mitten, molten, mountain, mutton, nekton, Newton, overwritten, Parton, Patten, phytoplankton, piston, plankton, plantain, platen, pleasing, ponton, predestine, prolactin, rewritten, rotten, satin, Seton, Sexton, shorten, Singleton, smitten, spartan, straighten, sultan, sweeten, tartan, teston, threaten, tighten, Titan, Triton, tungsten, typewritten, unbeaten, unbutton, uncertain, underwritten, unwritten, verboten, wanton, wheaten, whiten, written. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-k-l-n-o-o-s-t-x" | |
-3 letters: skeleton. | |
-4 letters: keelson, keenest, ketenes, ketones, sleeken, stelene, telexes. | |
-5 letters: extols, kelson, ketene, ketols, ketone, ketose, kneels, lentos, leones, loosen, nestle, sexton, sklent, stolen, stolon, telson, tokens. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-k-l-n-o-o-s-t-x" | |
+1 letter: exoskeletons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78 6F 73 6B 65 6C 65 74 6F 6E |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -..- --- ... -.- . .-.. . - --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 01101111 01110011 01101011 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x o s k e l e t o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078 006F 0073 006B 0065 006C 0065 0074 006F 006E |
| 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)3990818577717871868180 |
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