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Definition: Leftmost |
LeftmostAdjective1. Farthest to the left; "the leftmost non-zero digit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Leftmost |
| English words defined with "leftmost": significant digit, significant figure. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "leftmost": applicative order reduction ♦ binary tree representation of trees ♦ call-by-name ♦ LL ♦ Most Significant Bit ♦ normal order reduction. (references) |
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![]() | Closer view of the leftmost "pillar" of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust in M16, the Eagle Nebula.Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Moored in nests, off San Diego, California, circa 1922. Ships in the left foreground nest include (from left to right): USS Breese (DD-122); USS Radford (DD-120); USS Gamble (DD-123); USS Farquhar (DD-304); USS Robert Smith (DD-324); USS Montgomery (DD-121); and USS Lamberton (DD-119). Leftmost ship in the nest at right is USS Kennison (DD-138).Credit: NAVY. |
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| "Leftmost" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Leftmost" is used about 7 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% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "leftmost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pari nga e majta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | най-ляв. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 最左. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | höchstwertig (highest-order, most significant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | legbaloldalibb. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eftmostlay крайний слева. (various references) koji je najdalji levo. (various references) längst åt vänster. (various references) cực tả. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-m-o-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: mottles. | |
-2 letters: lottes, molest, motels, motets, mottes, mottle, oftest, totems. | |
-3 letters: felts, floes, lefts, lofts, lotte, melts, moles, molts, moste, motel, motes, motet, motte, motts, smelt, smolt, smote, stole, telos, tofts, toles, tomes, totem, totes. | |
-4 letters: efts, elms, emfs, felt, fems, fets, floe, foes, left, lest, lets, loft, lose, lost, lots, mels, melt, mole. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l-m-o-s-t-t" | |
+2 letters: leitmotifs. | |
+3 letters: letterforms. | |
+4 letters: footlamberts. | |
+5 letters: forestallment, olfactometers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 66 74 6D 6F 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ..-. - -- --- ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100110 01110100 01101101 01101111 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e f t m o s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0066 0074 006D 006F 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4671728679818586 |
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