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IMPROVED WATER WHEEL

Specialty Definition: IMPROVED WATER WHEEL

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	A modification of the paddle wheel in which the lower parts of the paddles are placed in a close fitting box to reduce spilling of the water from the edges of the paddle, and making it possible to lift water to comparatively greater heights. The labourers sit on a wooden or bamboo scaffolding erected over the installed wheel whose paddles they push down with their foot. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: IMPROVED WATER WHEEL

Language		Translations for "IMPROVED WATER WHEEL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		verbeterd schoepenrad. (various references)

Finnish		paranneltu vesiratas. (various references)

French		roue élévatoire perfectionnée. (various references)

German		verbessertes Wasserrad. (various references)

Greek		βελτιωμένος ανυψωτικός υδροτροχός. (various references)

Pig Latin		improveday aterway eelwhay

Portuguese		roda elevatória aperfeiçoada. (various references)

Spanish		rueda elevadora perfeccionada. (various references)

Swedish		förbättrat vattenhjul. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: IMPROVED WATER WHEEL

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-h-i-l-m-o-p-r-r-t-v-w-w"
	-5 letters: overweathered.
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: IMPROVED WATER WHEEL

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

49 4D 50 52 4F 56 45 44 57 41 54 45 52 57 48 45 45 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01001101 01010000 01010010 01001111 01010110 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010111 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010111 01001000 01000101 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#77 &#80 &#82 &#79 &#86 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#87 &#72 &#69 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 004D 0050 0052 004F 0056 0045 0044 0057 0041 0054 0045 0052 0057 0048 0045 0045 004C

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

43475052495639382573554395225742393946

INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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