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Golden Section

Definition: Golden Section

Golden Section

Noun

1. The proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonym: Golden Section

Synonym: golden mean (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Golden Section

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers and the Golden Section (reference)

  • Golden Section (reference)

  • Number Theory in the Quadratic Field With Golden Section Unit (reference)

  • The Golden Section (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Expressions: Golden Section

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

golden section

65
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Golden Section

Language Translations for "golden section"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

aranymetszés (gilt edges). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

黄金分割 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おうごんぶんかつ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oldengay ectionsay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Golden Section

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Euplectes afer, Euplectes afra, Taha afra. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Golden Section

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-g-i-l-n-n-o-o-s-t"

-1 letter: decongestion.

-3 letters: cetologies, clingstone, congestion, declension, indolences, ontogenies, osteogenic.

-4 letters: cloisonne, closeting, colonised, condoling, congested, consented, consigned, consignee, consoling, decongest, deletions, denticles, eclogites, ecologies, ecologist, elections, enclosing, endogenic, enologies, enologist, genocides, glistened, goldenest, goldstone, goodliest, ignescent, indolence, insolence, lodestone, loosening, needlings, neologies, noontides, oncogenes, oogenetic, seconding, sectioned, selecting, selection, singleton, stenciled, tensioned.

-5 letters: centiles.

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

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