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Heliac

Definition: Heliac

Heliac

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; "the heliacal rising of the Dog Star"; "the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star).

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Specialty Definitions: Heliac

DomainDefinitions

Physics

A confinement configuration which superimposes an l=1 stellarator-type field upon a tokamak-like poloidal field. The resulting plasma configuration is a helix bent around into a loop. (references)

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Synonym: Heliac

Synonym: heliacal (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Heliac

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

Danish

  

fleksibel heliac (flexible Heliac). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

flexibel experiment met Heliac-opsluiting (flexible Heliac). (various references)

   

French

  

Héliac flexible (flexible Heliac). (various references)

   

German

  

flexibler Heliac (flexible Heliac). (various references)

   

Italian

  

macchina flessibile di tipo Heliac (flexible Heliac). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eliachay

   

Ukranian 

  

сонячний (heliacal, shiny, solar, sunny). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Heliac

Derivations

Words beginning with "heliac": heliacal, heliacally. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Heliac"

Words rhyming with "heliac" (pronounced 'He"li*ac'): Acardiac, Almanac, Ambrosiac, Anaphrodisiac, Andarac, Anglomaniac, Antaphrodisiac, Anthypochondriac, Antiaphrodisiac, Antihypochondriac, Armoniac, Arteriac, Bac, Bibliomaniac, bobac, Cadillac, Calambac, Carac, Celeriac, Cluniac, Cognac, Corinthiac, Cul-de-sac, Dionysiac, Diplocardiac, Dipsomaniac, Dochmiac, Elephantiac, Eleutheromaniac, Epicardiac, Etaac, FAC, Frontiniac, Guiac, Haematosac, ipecac, Isiac, KLEPTOMANIAC, lilac, mac, Metromaniac, Muntjac, Mustac, Ovisac, PAC, Pachacamac, Pelusiac, Poonac, Salmiac, Sangiac, Scoriac, Seed-lac, S'erac, Sifac, Simoniac, Sporosac, Stick-lac, Syriac, TAC, Tac-au-tac, tendrac, tombac, Tulipomaniac, Vertebro-iliac, Zodiac. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Heliac

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l"

-1 letter: chela, chiel, chile, ileac, laich, leach.

-2 letters: ache, alec, ceil, chia, each, elhi, hail, hale, heal, heil, hila, ilea, lace, laic, lech, lice, lich.

-3 letters: ace, ail, ale, cel, chi, hae, hic, hie, ice, ich, lac, lea, lei, lie.

-4 letters: ae, ah, ai, al, eh, el, ha, he, hi, la, li.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-l"
 

+1 letter: caliche, chalice, challie, charlie, ethical, helical.

 

+2 letters: achenial, achillea, alchemic, athletic, caliches, cephalic, cephalin, chaliced, chalices, chalkier, challies, charlies, chemical, ethicals, ethnical, hacklier, hectical, heliacal, heraldic, heroical, inchmeal, leachier, leaching, lechayim, parhelic, teiglach, thetical.

 

+3 letters: achilleas, alchemies, alchemist, alchemize, alchymies, aldehydic, athletics, bleaching, caliphate, cephalins, chalkiest, challises, chamomile, chatelain, chelating, chelation, chelicera, chelonian, chemicals, chevalier, cichlidae, cochineal, coliphage, echolalia, echolalic, enchilada, ethically, hackliest, halocline, helically, heretical, leachiest, lechayims, lethargic, lightface, malachite, marchlike, petechial, pleaching, preachily, rachillae, selachian, spherical, technical, theriacal, thylacine, unethical, vehicular.

 

+4 letters: achievable, acidophile, alchemical, alchemists, alchemized, alchemizes, alkahestic, alphabetic, alphameric, anthelices, apothecial, aspherical, bechalking, bioethical, birthplace, branchline, calipashes, caliphates, candlefish, catchflies, cephalexin, chainwheel, chalcocite, chamomiles, chandelier, changeling, channeling, channelize, charitable, charladies, chatelaine, chatelains, cheapishly, chelations, chelicerae, cheliceral, chelonians, chemically, chevaliers, chimerical, chivalries, chlamydiae, chloramine, chlorinate, coalfishes, cochineals, coleorhiza, coliphages, echolalias, enchiladas, ethicality, ethnically, haloclines, hatcheling, hectically, heliacally, helicoidal, hellacious, hemiacetal, herbicidal, hermetical, heroically, hierarchal, hysterical, inchoately, lightfaced, lightfaces, machinable, malachites, manchineel, mechanical, megalithic, methodical, mischannel, neophiliac, nonethical, pathetical, philatelic, phlegmatic, preethical, rhetorical, schmalzier, selachians, switchable, technicals, telepathic, theatrical, theistical, thetically, theurgical, thylacines, ultrafiche, unathletic, wheelchair.

 

+5 letters: acidophiles, aesthetical, alchemistic, alchemizing, aphetically, archangelic, archegonial, archipelago, atheistical, athleticism, backlighted, bellyaching, bibliotheca, biochemical, birthplaces, blackfishes, bleacherite, branchlines, calisthenic, candlelight, catechismal, catholicate, catholicize, cephalexins, cephalothin, chainwheels, chalcedonic, chalcocites, challenging, chamberlain, chameleonic, chandeliers, chandelling, chandleries, changelings, channelized, channelizes, channelling, chanticleer, charbroiled, charbroiler, chatelaines, cherishable, chiralities, chloramines, chlorinated, chlorinates, chocolatier, cholestasis, cholestatic, chrysalides, chrysalises, cliffhanger, coleorhizae, delphically, diencephala, edaphically, epithalamic, epithetical, ethicalness, ethological, feldspathic, geochemical, geophysical, hallucinate, hatchelling, hedonically, hematologic, hemiacetals, hemophiliac, heretically, hexadecimal, hibernacula, homiletical, hypokalemic, icosahedral, impeachable, intrathecal, lecithinase, logomachies, machineable, machinelike, manchineels, marshalcies, mechanicals, melancholia, melancholic, metaethical, mischannels, myelopathic, necrophilia, neophiliacs, nonathletic, nonchemical, oligarchies, oligochaete, patchoulies, pedophiliac, perithecial, preachingly, procephalic, prophetical, psychedelia, relaunching, rheological, schmaltzier, schmalziest, searchingly, searchlight, shellacking, spaceflight, spherically, spinachlike, spirochetal, stickhandle, switchblade, technically, telegraphic, thalassemic, theatricals, theological, theoretical, thermically, ultrafiches, untechnical, wheelchairs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Heliac


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

48 65 6C 69 61 63

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 01100101 01101100 01101001 01100001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#97 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 006C 0069 0061 0063

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

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

427178756769

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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