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Isomerism

Definition: Isomerism

Isomerism

Noun

1. The state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Isomerism

DomainDefinitions

Physics

The occurrence of isomers. Source: European Union. (references)

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Crosswords: Isomerism

English words defined with "isomerism": isomericMalic acidOrtho-Physical isomerismUnsymmetrical carbon atom. (references)
Specialty definitions using "isomerism": nuclear isomerism. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Isomerism

DomainTitle

Books

  • Aspects of isomerism (reference)

  • Contemporary Theory of Chemical Isomerism (Understanding Chemical Reactivity) (reference)

  • Molecular Structure and Optical Isomerism in Carbon Compounds (reference)

  • Rotational Isomerism of Vinyl Ethers and Sulfides (Sulfur Reports Series) (reference)

  • Structural and Cis-Trans Isomerism in Carbon Compounds (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: Isomerism

"Isomerism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Isomerism" is used about 30 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%3063,341

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Expressions: Isomerism

Expressions using "isomerism": nuclear isomerism optical isomerism physical isomerism. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "isomerism": stereo-isomerism, trans-isomerism.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Isomerism

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

isomerism

3

optical isomerism

2
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Modern Translation: Isomerism

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

Danish

  

isomeri (nuclear isomerism), kerneisomeri (nuclear isomerism). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

isomerie (nuclear isomerism), kernisomerie (nuclear isomerism). (various references)

   

French

  

isomerie nucleaire (nuclear isomerism), isomerie (nuclear isomerism), isomérie. (various references)

   

German

  

Isomerie (nuclear isomerism), Kernisomerie (nuclear isomerism). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ισομέρεια (isomer). (various references)

   

Italian

  

isomeria (nuclear isomerism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isomerismay

   

Portuguese

  

isomerismo, isomeria. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

isomerismo, isomería. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

isomeri, kärnisomeri (nuclear isomerism). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Isomerism

Derivations

Words beginning with "isomerism": isomerisms. (additional references)

Words ending with "isomerism": diastereoisomerism, stereoisomerism. (additional references)

Words containing "isomerism": diastereoisomerisms, stereoisomerisms. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Isomerism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: isomerise. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Isomerism"

Words rhyming with "isomerism" (pronounced 'I*som"er*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Isomerism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-i-m-m-o-r-s-s"

-2 letters: isomers, meiosis, memoirs, merisis, mimesis, momsers, mossier, simmers.

-3 letters: immies, irises, isomer, memoir, mimeos, mimers, mioses, miosis, misers, moires, momser, mosser, osiers, remiss, rimose, seisor, simmer.

-4 letters: emirs, issei, memos, mimeo, mimer, mimes, mires, miser, mises, misos, moire, momes, mores, morse, omers, osier, rimes, rises, roses, seism, semis, sires, sores.

-5 letters: emir, eros, ires.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-i-m-m-o-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: immersions, isomerisms, meliorisms, memoirists, microseism.

 

+2 letters: microseisms.

 

+3 letters: commissaries, commissioner, immortalises, memorialises, memorialists, microseismic, recommission, seismometric.

 

+4 letters: commissioners, hemimorphisms, impressionism, imprisonments, misimpression, overoptimisms, recommissions, seismometries.

 

+5 letters: ceremonialisms, commercialises, commercialisms, commercialists, commiserations, commissionaire, homoeroticisms, impressionisms, misimpressions, recommissioned.

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Alternative Orthography: Isomerism


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

49 73 6F 6D 65 72 69 73 6D

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0073 006F 006D 0065 0072 0069 0073 006D

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

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

438581797184758579

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Isomerism"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Danish

ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelsedanois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, dinamarquês, danés, dansk

Dutch

woordenboek, definitie, translatiehollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, holandês, holandés, holländsk

French

dictionnaire, définition, traductionfrançais, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, francês, francés, fransk, franska

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitiontysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, alemão, alemán, tysk

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgræker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, grego, griego, grek

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitaliener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, italiensk, italienska, italienare

Portuguese

dicionário, definição, traduçãoportugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, português, portugués, portugis

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónSpaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, espanhol, español, spanska språk, spansk

Swedish

ordbok, lexikon, översättningZweeds, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, sueco, svensk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, inglês, inglés, engelsk
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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