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Definition: Hamming |
HammingNoun1. Poor acting by a ham actor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mathematics | A procedure for smoothing the spectrum of a time series using weights of 1/4, 1/2 and 1/4. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: HammingSynonym: overacting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hamming |
| Specialty definitions using "hamming": error detection and correction ♦ gray code ♦ Hamming code, Hamming distance. (references) |
| "Hamming" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 54.55% of the time. "Hamming" is used about 11 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 54.55% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 36.36% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hamming" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hamming | Last name | 170 | 51,478 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "hamming": hamming code ♦ hamming distance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
code hamming | 29 |
hamming | 18 |
codigo hamming | 14 |
distance hamming | 12 |
crc distance hamming | 5 |
hamming network neural | 4 |
codigo de hamming | 3 |
hamming network neural pattern pdf recognition | 3 |
richard hamming | 3 |
hamming window | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hamming"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Hammings udjævningsmetode. (various references) | |
Dutch | hamming. (various references) | |
Finnish | spektrin Hamming-tasoitus. (various references) | |
German | Hamming. (various references) | |
Greek | εξομάλυνση κατά Hamming. (various references) | |
Italian | hamming, gigionismo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ハトロン紙 (agreed, Armageddon, falling rapidly in big drops, good, haddock, hafnium, halation, halberd, Halley, ham, ham and eggs, ham and salad, Hamilton, Hammond organ, hamster, Hanoi, happening, Harrier, Harry, hashed meat with rice, heart going pit-a-pat, honey, honeymoon, Honeywell, Hubbard, hum, humming, hurricane, kraft paper, resin, rosefish, splendid, style of clothing popular in the late 1970s and resembling a Catholic school uniform, to be in harmony, to harmonize, twitterpating, wonderful). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ハミング (humming). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amminghay.(various references) | |
Russian | хэмминг. (various references) | |
Spanish | procedimiento de suavizado del espectro de una serie temporal. (various references) | |
Swedish | Hammings utjämning. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "hamming": shamming, whamming. (additional references) | |
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"Hamming" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haemig, hammling, Hammnet, Hanjin, Heming, hummind, hummings, khamsin. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-m-m-n" | |
-2 letters: gamin. | |
-3 letters: agin, amin, gain, hang, imam, magi, maim, main, mina, nigh. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, ami, ani, gam, gan, ghi, gin, hag, ham, him, hin, hmm, mag, man, mig, mim, nag, nah, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: ag, ah, ai, am, an, ha, hi, hm, in, ma, mi, mm, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-m-m-n" | |
+1 letter: shamming, whamming. | |
+2 letters: chammying, hammering, shammying. | |
+3 letters: hemangioma, homemaking, mythmaking. | |
+4 letters: hemangiomas, homemakings, matchmaking, mismatching, mythmakings, rehammering. | |
+5 letters: gamesmanship, hemangiomata, matchmakings, phonogrammic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 |
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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)01001000 01100001 01101101 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a m m i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 006D 006D 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)42677979758073 |
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