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FLASHPOINT

Specialty Definition: FLASHPOINT

DomainDefinition

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.

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Crosswords: FLASHPOINT

Specialty definitions using "FLASHPOINT": fire point. (references)

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

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Modern Usage: FLASHPOINT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Flashpoint (1972)

Operation Flashpoint (2001)

Flashpoint (1992)

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

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Commercial Usage: FLASHPOINT

DomainTitle

High Tech

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: FLASHPOINT

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: FLASHPOINT

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)81.08%3063,341
Noun (proper)13.51%5157,705
Lexical Verb (base form)5.41%2245,945
                    Total100.00%37N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FLASHPOINT

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

operation flashpoint

909

cheat flashpoint

16

flashpoint

229

code flashpoint operation

15

addons flashpoint operation

114

download flashpoint operation

13

cheat flashpoint operation

113

arena flashpoint operation

13

cd flashpoint key operation

109

cheat cold crisis flashpoint operation war

13

flashpoint mods operation

47

2 flashpoint operation trainer

12

flashpoint operation patch

39

jenna jameson flashpoint

12

flashpoint operation resistance

37

add flashpoint ons operation

12

flashpoint operation through walk

31

flashpoint operation upgrade

11

downloads flashpoint operation

30

x box operation flashpoint

11

cz flashpoint operation

28

flashpoint mod operation

11

flashpoint operation trainer

27

downloads flashpoint mission operation

11

flashpoint missions operation

26

flashpoint patch

10

operation flashpoint cold war crisis

22

addons flashpoint

10

flashpoint map operation

22

arena flashpoint

10

demo flashpoint operation

19

cd flashpoint no operation

9

cheat code flashpoint operation

18

flashpoint operation update

9

flashpoint operation serial

18

editing flashpoint operation

9

2 flashpoint

17

2 flashpoint operation

9

cd flashpoint key

16

addons cz flashpoint operation

8

cd cold crisis flashpoint key operation war

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: FLASHPOINT

Misspellings

"FLASHPOINT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: flastpoint. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: FLASHPOINT

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.

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Alternative Orthography: FLASHPOINT


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

46 4C 41 53 48 50 4F 49 4E 54

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 01001100 01000001 01010011 01001000 01010000 01001111 01001001 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#76 &#65 &#83 &#72 &#80 &#79 &#73 &#78 &#84

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)

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

40463553425049434854

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INDEX

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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