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Fermi

Definitions: Fermi

Fermi

Noun

1. 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.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Fermi

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

A unit of length equal to 10-13 centimeters.Abbreviation f. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Fermi

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

FERMI

EnglishFormalisation and Experimentation on the Retrieval of Multimedia InformationN/A

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

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Synonyms: Fermi

Synonyms: femtometer (n), femtometre (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fermi

English words defined with "fermi": Enrico Fermi. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fermi": extrapolated Fermi levelFermi 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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Modern Usage: Fermi

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Fermi tutti arrivo io! (1953)

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Commercial Usage: Fermi

DomainTitle

Books

  • Biomedical Applications of Synchroton Radiation (International School of Physics Enrico Fermi , Vol 128) (reference)

  • Coherent and Collective Interactions of Particle and Radiation Beams: Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 11-21 July 1995 (International School of Physics Enrico Fermi , Vol 131) (reference)

  • Enrico Fermi Physicist (reference)

  • Fermi and Astrophysics (reference)

  • Fermi Surface Effects: Proceedings (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, Vol 77) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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Usage Frequency: Fermi

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)53.85%1493,893
Noun (proper)30.77%8124,375
Noun (plural)15.38%4175,879
                    Total100.00%26N/A

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

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Expression: Fermi

Expressions using "fermi": Enrico Fermi extrapolated Fermi level Fermi degeneration Fermi statistics. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "fermi": Fermi-Dirac, Fermi-Dirac statistics.

Ending with "fermi": Pauli-Fermi.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fermi

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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
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Modern Translations: Fermi

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

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)

   

Swedish

  

fermistatistik (Fermi statistics, Fermi-Dirac statistics), Fermi-sfär (Fermi sphere), Fermi-degenerering (Fermi degeneration), extrapolerad Fermi-nivå (extrapolated Fermi level). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Fermi

Derivations

Words beginning with "fermi": fermion, fermions, fermis, fermium, fermiums. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Fermi

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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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fermi


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

46 65 72 6D 69

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)

01000110 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#105

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)

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

4071847975

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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