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HEATSEEKER

Specialty Definition: HEATSEEKER

Domain	Definition
Computing	Heatseeker n. [IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe). A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a 286 PC and Windows 3.0, went out and bought Windows 3.1 (which offers no worthwhile benefits unless you have a 386). If all customers were heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be made by just fixing some of the bugs in each release (n) and selling it to them as release (n+1). Microsoft in fact seems to have mastered this technique. Source: Jargon File.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Usage: HEATSEEKER

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Heatseeker (1995)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: HEATSEEKER

Domain	Title
Music	Heatseeker (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: HEATSEEKER

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
heatseeker	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: HEATSEEKER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-h-k-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: hektares.
	-3 letters: aethers, heaters, hektare, keester, reheats, retakes, sheeter, skeeter.
	-4 letters: aether, aretes, earths, easter, eaters, ethers, haeres, haters, hearse, hearts, heater, hereat, kasher, rakees, reheat, reseat, reseek, retake, seater, seeker, seethe, shaker, skater, strake, streak, streek, takers, teaser, theres, threes.
	-5 letters: akees, arete, asker, aster, earth, eater, erase, eskar, esker, ester, ether, haets.
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.

Alternative Orthography: HEATSEEKER

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

48 45 41 54 53 45 45 4B 45 52

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)

01001000 01000101 01000001 01010100 01010011 01000101 01000101 01001011 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#83 &#69 &#69 &#75 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0054 0053 0045 0045 004B 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

42393554533939453952

INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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