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Definition: Fitment |
FitmentNoun1. Any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture); "she liked the kitchen fitments". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fitment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Note: Fitment \Fit"ment\, noun. The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Furniture fixed, often by the builder, as opPosed to the loose furniture bought by the occupier. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Fitment |
| Specialty definitions using "fitment": segmented mold. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | For example, U.S. firm 3M, opened 10 fitment centers in a space of 10 months. (references) | |
Economic History | Pakistan | The plan includes re-commissioning of 55 diesel electric locomotives, refurbishment of 240 passenger coaches, rehabilitation of 1000 freight wagons, fitment of roller bearings to 574 freight wagons, and replacement of 85 kms. of overage rails and 187 kms. of overage sleepers, and improvement of signaling and telecommunication facilities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Fitment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fitment" is used about 20 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% | 20 | 78,262 |
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 |
fitment | 20 |
fitment guide tire | 17 |
fitment guide wheel | 16 |
fitment tire | 13 |
fitment wheel | 12 |
equipment fitment furniture hotel | 6 |
chart fitment tire | 4 |
aluminum fitment | 3 |
fitment tire wheel | 3 |
fitment guide mast | 2 |
motorcycle tire fitment | 2 |
fitment guide tire wheel | 2 |
chart fitment | 2 |
chart fitment wheel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fitment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pajisje (amenities, capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, fit out, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, gadget, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, supply, tackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | част от покъщнина, мебел (furniture), домашна вещ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | équipement immobilier (fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | einrichtungsgegenstand (fixtures, item of furniture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εξάρτημα (accessory, appurtenance, biscuit cutter, component, component part, cutter, dependency, fitting, welded assembly, weldment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | berendezés (accommodation, apparatus, appliance, appointments, arrangement, arresting device, contrivance, decoder, device, disposition, equipment, facilities, furnishing, furniture, installation, machinery, organization, plant, pulling device, retarder, rigging, set, setting-up, setup, tackle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arredo (furnishings, furniture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | farrys (apparatus, appliance, economy, plant, props, rig). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itmentfay vacilante (faltering, flier, floating, limp, rickety, shaky, shilly shally, tipsy, trembling, vacillating, wavering, wobbly, wonky), móvel (cause, flexile, flying, mobile, movable, moving, on wheels, piece of furniture, portable, rolling, shifting, traveling, travelling, wandering, wheeled). (various references) dispozitiv (apparatus, appliance, contrivance, device, outfit, spreader). (various references) предмет обстановки. (various references) oprema (equipment, fittings, kit, outfit, rig, set out, tackling). (various references) mueble (furnishing, furniture, piece of furniture). (various references) möbel (piece of furniture). (various references) tesisat (fitting, fixture, installation, installment, instalment), teçhizat (accoutrement, accoutrements, appointments, arming, equipage, equipment, fittings, fixings, gear, hardware, rig), takım (band, battery, brigade, bunch, clique, Covey, gang, gear, group, outfit, platoon, posse, set, side, squad, suit, suite, tackle, team, tribe), parçalar (Flinders, parts, pieces), mobilya (furnishings, furniture). (various references) предмет обстановки. (various references) đ" gỗ cố định. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fitment": fitments. (additional references) | |
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"Fitment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fiametta, firment, fishmen, fitament, fiumetto, Fontmeta. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "fitment" (pronounced 'Fit"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-m-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: mitten, titmen. | |
-2 letters: feint. | |
-3 letters: emit, fine, item, mien, mine, mint, mite, mitt, neif, nett, nite, tent, time, tine, tint. | |
-4 letters: eft, emf, fem, fen, fet, fie, fin, fit, men, met, net, nim, nit, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit. | |
-5 letters: ef, em, en, et, if, in, it, me, mi, ne, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-m-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: fitments. | |
+3 letters: oftentimes. | |
+4 letters: filmsetting, fomentation, manifestant, metafiction, tumefaction. | |
+5 letters: antifeminist, fermentation, fermentative, filmsettings, fomentations, infotainment, manifestants, metafictions, muttonfishes, postfeminist, reformatting, tumefactions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 74 6D 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. - -- . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110100 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i t m e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0074 006D 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40758679718086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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