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IMPACTOR

Specialty Definition: IMPACTOR

DomainDefinition

Environment

Device that collects particles by impaction on the surface below the inlet nozzle and to some extent by scrubbing. Source: European Union. (references)

Transportation

The rigid hemispherical headform 165 mm in diameter, in accordance with Annex IV paragraph 3. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Photo Album: IMPACTOR

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Particle impactor to study atmospheric particulate matter; Aiken condensation nuclei counter, and Dupont humidity sensor. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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

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Usage Frequency: IMPACTOR

"IMPACTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "IMPACTOR" is used about 13 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1397,576

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: IMPACTOR

Expressions using "IMPACTOR": femur form impactor upper legform impactor. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IMPACTOR

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

impactor shaft vertical

4

cascade impactor

4

impactor

3

crusher crusher impact impactor

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IMPACTOR

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

Danish

  

sidste trin af impaktoren er etabsolut-filtertil at opfange partikler mindre end 0,5 mikron (the placing of an absolute filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns), forstoeveren producerer draaber af meget varierende stoerrelse, hvoraf de stoerste tilbageholdes af en impaktor (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor, the spray produces droplets of widely varying size). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

achter de laatste trap van de impactor een absoluut filter schakelen voor het afvangen van deeltjes kleiner dan 0,5 micrometer (the placing of an absolute filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns). (various references)

   

French

  

impacteur en cascade (cascade impactor, multi-staged impactor), impacteur de partie supérieure de la jambe (femur form impactor, upper legform impactor), placer en aval du dernier étage de l'impacteur un filtre absolu pourretenir les particules inférieures 0,5 microns (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns), l'atomiseur produit des gouttelettes de tailles très dispersées: les grosses gouttelettes sont arrêtées par un impacteur (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor). (various references)

   

German

  

zwei-dimensionaler scheinbarer Impaktor (two-dimensional virtual impactor), Zentripeter (two-dimensional virtual impactor), Stufenkonimeter (cascade impactor, multi-staged impactor), Kaskadenimpaktor (cascade impactor, multi-staged impactor), der Zerstaeuber erzeugt Troepfchen sehr unterschiedlicher Groesse: die groesseren werden durch ein Aufprallgeraet aufgehalten (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor, the spray produces droplets of widely varying size), der letzten Stufe des Impaktors ist ein sog. Absolutfilter zum Abfangen von Teilchen kleiner als 0,5 Mikron nachgeschaltet (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

η τελευταία βαθμίδα του προσκρουστήρα είναι ένα απόλυτο φίλτρο για την κατακράτηση σωματιδίων μικροτέρων των 0,5μ (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns), ο ψεκαστήρας παράγει σταγονίδια σε ποικίλα μεγέθη,τα μεγαλύτερα από τα οποία μπορούν να κατακρατηθούν με τη βοήθεια διαφράγματος (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor, the spray produces droplets of widely varying size). (various references)

   

Italian

  

impattore casacata (cascade impactor, multi-staged impactor), il nebulizzatore produce goccioline di dimensioni molto disperse: le goccioline di grandi dimensioni vengono fermate da un dispositivo di arresto (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor, the spray produces droplets of widely varying size), disporre a valle dell'ultimo piano del dispositivo d'arresto un filtro assoluto per trattenere le particelle inferiori a 0,5 micron (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

impactoray

   

Portuguese

  

colocado saída do último andar do impactor um filtro absoluto para reter as partículas inferiores a 0,5 microns (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

máquina impactadora para sanear galerías (boom impactor, impact ripper, scaler, scaling unit), el nebulizador produce gotitas de dimensiones muy dispersas, las gotas de dimensiones grandes son interceptadas por un dispositivo de detención (the larger ones of which are arrested by an impactor, the spray produces droplets of widely varying size), colocar corriente abajo de la última etapa del impacto un filtro absoluto para retener las partículas inferiores a 0,5 micras (the placing of an "absolute" filter at the bottom of the last stage of the impactor in order to capture particles smaller than 0.5 microns). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: IMPACTOR

Derivations

Words beginning with "IMPACTOR": impactors. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: IMPACTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-o-p-r-t"

-1 letter: apomict, apricot, aprotic, compart, crampit, parotic, potamic.

-2 letters: aortic, armpit, atomic, atopic, captor, cartop, impact, impart, import, optima, picaro, tropic.

-3 letters: actor, amort, aport, atrip, campi, campo, carom, carpi, coapt, coati, compt, copra, coria, cramp, crimp, macro, micra, micro, moira, optic, patio, picot, prima, primo, ratio, tapir, taroc, topic, toric, tramp, triac, tromp.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-o-p-r-t"
 

+1 letter: ametropic, impactors, pictogram, preatomic.

 

+2 letters: amphoteric, comparting, compatriot, importance, importancy, metaphoric, morphactin, patronymic, pictograms.

 

+3 letters: atmospheric, comparatist, comparative, compatriots, corporatism, cryptogamic, cryptomeria, emancipator, importances, imprecation, imprecatory, macrophytic, metamorphic, morphactins, patronymics, preromantic, problematic, tomographic.

 

+4 letters: actinomorphy, amperometric, apochromatic, atmospherics, camphorating, comparatists, comparatives, compatriotic, compurgation, corporatisms, cryptomerias, emancipators, importancies, imprecations, intercompany, intercompare, intracompany, metaphorical, misanthropic, overemphatic, panchromatic, paronomastic, pictorialism, polarimetric, postorgasmic, postromantic, problematics, proclamation, programmatic, protactinium, protoplasmic, semitropical, unimportance.

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

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Alternative Orthography: IMPACTOR


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

49 4D 50 41 43 54 4F 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)

01001001 01001101 01010000 01000001 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#80 &#65 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 0050 0041 0043 0054 004F 0052

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

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

4347503537544952

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INDEX

1. Images: Photo Album
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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