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Definitions: Fermi |
FermiNoun1. A metric unit of length equal to one quadrillionth of a meter. 2. Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Aerospace | A unit of length equal to 10-13 centimeters.Abbreviation f. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FERMI | English | Formalisation and Experimentation on the Retrieval of Multimedia Information | N/A |
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Synonyms: FermiSynonyms: femtometer (n), femtometre (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fermi |
| English words defined with "fermi": Enrico Fermi. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fermi": extrapolated Fermi level ♦ Fermi accelerations, Fermi degeneration, Fermi statistics, FNAL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fermi" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (close, shut). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fermi tutti arrivo io! (1953) | |
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| "Fermi" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 53.85% of the time. "Fermi" is used about 26 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 53.85% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 30.77% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (plural) | 15.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 26 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "fermi": Enrico Fermi ♦ extrapolated Fermi level ♦ Fermi degeneration ♦ Fermi statistics. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "fermi": Fermi-Dirac, Fermi-Dirac statistics. | |
Ending with "fermi": Pauli-Fermi. | |
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| 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 |
enrico fermi | 64 |
fermi lab | 32 |
fermi | 25 |
fermi paradox | 10 |
enrico fermi high school | 6 |
fermi level | 4 |
biography enrico fermi | 4 |
accelerator fermi laboratory national | 3 |
fermi lab national | 3 |
fermi laboratory | 3 |
de fermi nivel | 2 |
2 fermi | 2 |
fermi nivel | 2 |
fermi high school | 2 |
accelerator fermi lab national | 2 |
enrico fermi picture | 2 |
fermi laboratory national | 2 |
fermi nuclear plant power | 2 |
fermi energy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fermi"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 费密. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Fermikugle (Fermi sphere), Fermi-Dirac-statistik (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-degeneration (Fermi degeneration), ekstrapoleret Fermi-niveau (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Fermistatistiek (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-ontaarding (Fermi degeneration), Fermi-Diracstatistiek (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermibol (Fermi sphere), geextrapoleerd Ferminiveau (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Fermi-pallo (Fermi sphere), Fermin statistiikka (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-degeneraatio (Fermi degeneration), ekstrapoloitu Fermi-taso (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | statistique de Fermi-Dirac (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), statistique de Fermi (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), sphère de Fermi (Fermi sphere), niveau de Fermi extrapolé (extrapolated Fermi level), dégenération du gaz de Fermi (Fermi degeneration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fermi-Statistik (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-Kugel (Fermi sphere), Fermi-Entartung (Fermi degeneration), Fermi-Dirac-Statistik (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), extrapoliertes Fermi-Niveau (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σφαίρα Fermi (Fermi sphere), στατιστική Φέρμι-Ντιράκ (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), στατιστική Φέρμι (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), προεκβαλόμενη στάθμη Fermi (extrapolated Fermi level), εκφυλισμός Fermi (Fermi degeneration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | statistica di Fermi-Dirac (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), statistica di Fermi (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), sfera di Fermi (Fermi sphere), livello di Fermi estrapolato (extrapolated Fermi level), degenerazione di Fermi (Fermi degeneration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | フェルミ面 (Fermi surface), フェルミ'子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, pheromone, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | フェルミりゅうし (Fermi particle), フェルミめ" (Fermi surface). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermifay nivel de Fermi extrapolado (extrapolated Fermi level), estatística de Fermi-Dirac (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), estatística de Fermi (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), esfera de Fermi (Fermi sphere), degeneraçao Fermi (Fermi degeneration). (various references) nivel de Fermi extrapolado (extrapolated Fermi level), estadística de Fermi-Dirac (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), estadística de Fermi (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), esfera de Fermi (Fermi sphere), degeneración de Fermi (Fermi degeneration). (various references) fermistatistik (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-sfär (Fermi sphere), Fermi-degenerering (Fermi degeneration), extrapolerad Fermi-nivå (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fermi": fermion, fermions, fermis, fermium, fermiums. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-m-r" | |
-1 letter: emir, fire, firm, mire, reif, rife, rime. | |
-2 letters: emf, fem, fer, fie, fir, ire, mir, ref, rei, rem, rif, rim. | |
-3 letters: ef, em, er, if, me, mi, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-m-r" | |
+1 letter: fermis, filmer, firmed, firmer, fumier, refilm. | |
+2 letters: comfier, deiform, fermion, fermium, filmers, filmier, firearm, fireman, firemen, firmers, firmest, flamier, foamier, metrify, miffier, misfire, refilms, rimfire. | |
+3 letters: aeriform, affirmed, affirmer, airframe, biformed, campfire, drumfire, ensiform, farmwife, fermions, fermiums, filmgoer, fimbriae, firearms, firebomb, firedamp, fireroom, fireworm, firmness, firmware, flimsier, forelimb, foremilk, foretime, fremitus, frumpier, infirmed, inflamer, informed, informer, merciful, misfired, misfires, misframe, misinfer, misrefer, modifier, pediform, ramified, ramifies, reaffirm, refilmed, refugium, reinform, remodify, reniform, retiform, rifleman, riflemen, rimfires, setiform. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 72 6D 69 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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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)01000110 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e r m i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0072 006D 0069 |
| 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)4071847975 |
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