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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The temperature at which a substance, as fuel oil, will give off a vapor that will flash or burn momentarily when ignited. Compare fire point. (references) |
Mining | The minimum temperature at which sufficient vapor is released by a liquidor solid to form a flammable vapor-air mixture at atmospheric pressure. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FLASHPOINT |
| Specialty definitions using "FLASHPOINT": fire point. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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Movie/TV Titles | Flashpoint (1972) Operation Flashpoint (2001) Flashpoint (1992) | |
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Economic History | Syria | However, Lebanese resistance groups such as Hizballah use it to justify attacks against Israeli forces in that region, creating a potentially dangerous flashpoint along the Lebanon-Israeli border. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FLASHPOINT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 81.08% of the time. "FLASHPOINT" is used about 37 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) | 81.08% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 13.51% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 5.41% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 37 | N/A |
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. |
Misspellings | |
"FLASHPOINT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flastpoint. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-t" | |
-2 letters: haplonts, hospital, naphtols, shoplift, siphonal. | |
-3 letters: apostil, fashion, haplont, hatpins, latinos, naphtol, panfish, plaints, planish, plinths, pontils, talions, topsail. | |
-4 letters: aloins, faints, faiths, filths, finals, flints, floats, flotas, fontal, hatpin, holist, instal, lapins, lathis, latino, latish, lithos, lotahs, nopals, oafish, paints, palish, pantos, pastil, pathos, patins, patios, patois, phials, phonal, pianos, pilafs, pilots. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-t" | |
+5 letters: antishoplifting, hyperinflations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 4C 41 53 48 50 4F 49 4E 54 |
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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 01001100 01000001 01010011 01001000 01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F L A S H P O I N T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 004C 0041 0053 0048 0050 004F 0049 004E 0054 |
| 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)40463553425049434854 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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