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Definition: Hermetic |
HermeticAdjective1. Completely sealed; completely airtight. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hermetic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | Made impervious to air and other fluids by fusion. Originally applied to the closing of glass vessels by fusing the ends and, by extension, to any mode of airtight closure. Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Impervious to air; airtight. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Crosswords: Hermetic |
| English words defined with "hermetic": Hermetic art, Hermetic books, Hermetical. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hermetic": accessible hermetic compressor unit ♦ diallyl-phthalate encapsulation ♦ Hermetic Philosophy, Hermetic Powder. (references) |
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| "Hermetic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hermetic" is used about 33 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 33 | 60,273 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "hermetic": accessible hermetic compressor unit ♦ Hermetic art ♦ Hermetic books. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "hermetic": semi-hermetic. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "hermetic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hermetik (air-locked, airtight, waterproof), i papërshkueshëm (impenetrable, impermeable, impervious), e padeshifrueshme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محكم السد (airstrip, airtight), محكم (airtight, coherent, compact, fast, firm, impermeable, impervious, precise, secure, solid, strong, tight, well knit), لا يتأثر بالنفوذ الخارجى, سحرى (occult). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | херметически (staunch), окултен (cabbalistic, occult), алхимически. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 密封 (Hermetical, sealed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | hermetický, nepropustný (impervious, watertight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hermetisk (airtight, air-tight, sealed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | hermetisch (airtight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | puolihermeettinen kompressoriyksikkö (accessible hermetic compressor unit, field service compressor unit, semi-hermetic compressor unit, semi-hermetically sealed compressor unit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | hermétique (hermetical), hermétique, étanche, hermétique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hermetisch (airtight, air-tight, hermetical, hermetically, sealed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ερμητικόσ (air-tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אטום "יטב, "רמטי, ' וז (concealed, hidden, latent, secret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hermetikus, titokzatos (apocalyptic, cabalistic, cryptic, eerie, eery, enigmatic, enigmatical, esoteric, hieroglyphic, mysterious, mystic, secret), légmentes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Ermetico (abstruse, air-tight, dark, difficult to understand, hermetical, obscure, obscurely, opaque, recondite, sealed, tight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비한 (Hermetical, Mysterious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ermetichay hermético (air-tight, leakproof, leaktight, leak-tight, prestidigitation, sealed). (various references) ermetic (air proof, air-tight, hermetically, tight, watertight). (various references) герметический (air tight, airtight, air-tight, pressurized). (various references) hermetičan (airtight), hermesov. (various references) hermético (air proof, airtight, air-tight, sealed, tight, tight lipped). (various references) hermetisk. (various references) hava geçirmez (airproof, airtight, weathertight), sımsıkı kapalı, büyüye ait, anlaşılması zor (abstruse, complicated, muddy, recondite). (various references) герметичний (air proof, airtight, impermeable, watertight, windtight), магічний (magic, magical, necromantic), алхімік (adept, alchemist, philosopher). (various references) thuật giả kim (alchemy), kín thuật luyện đan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hermetic": hermetical, hermetically, hermeticism, hermeticisms. (additional references) | |
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"Hermetic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamitic, Hementin, heretick, hermaeia, hermatic, hermet, Hermetica, hermeticism, hermetics, Hermeticum, hermeticy, Hermodice, holmatic, hormetic, hubmatic, kermesic, Lhermet. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-m-r-t" | |
-1 letter: chimere, erethic, etheric, heretic, techier, thermic. | |
-2 letters: cerite, cermet, chimer, cither, either, emetic, etcher, hermit, metier, metric, mither, recite, reemit, retime, techie, therme, thrice, tierce. | |
-3 letters: cheer, chert, chime, chirm, citer, creme, crime, erect, ether, ethic, hemic, ither, merit, meter, metre, miche, mirth, miter, mitre, recti, rehem, remet, remit, retch, retem, retie, terce, their, theme, there, therm, three, timer, trice. | |
-4 letters: cere, cete, chit, cire, cite, eche, emic, emir, emit, etch, etic, heir, heme, here, herm, hire, itch, item, meet, mere, mete, meth, mice, mire, mite, rete, rice, rich, rime, rite, teem, term, thee, them, thir, tier, time, tire, tree, trim. | |
-5 letters: cee, chi, eme, ere, eth, hem, her, het, hic, hie, him, hit, ice, ich, ire, met, mir, rec, ree, rei, rem, ret, rim, tee, the, tic, tie. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-m-r-t" | |
+2 letters: enrichment, exothermic, hermetical. | |
+3 letters: champerties, chemistries, ectothermic, endothermic, enrichments, eurythermic, heliometric, hemstitcher, hermeneutic, hermeticism, heteroecism, hypermetric, metanephric, perithecium, theorematic, thermocline, xerothermic. | |
+4 letters: decipherment, encipherment, euhemeristic, geochemistry, hemichordate, hemstitchers, hermeneutics, hermetically, hermeticisms, heteroecisms, homeothermic, hyperthermic, neurochemist, overemphatic, theocentrism, thermoclines, thermometric. | |
+5 letters: cephalometric, chronometries, decipherments, encipherments, ethnocentrism, exothermicity, hemichordates, hermeneutical, heterogametic, heteromorphic, hypermetrical, hypermetropic, morphogenetic, nephelometric, nephrectomies, nephrectomize, neurochemists, petrochemical, psychometries, saccharimeter, theocentrisms, thermochemist, thermospheric, tracheotomies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 72 6D 65 74 69 63 |
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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 01100101 01110010 01101101 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e r m e t i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 0072 006D 0065 0074 0069 0063 |
| 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)4271847971867569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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