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Leftmost

Definition: Leftmost

Leftmost

Adjective

1. 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 reductionbinary tree representation of treescall-by-nameLLMost Significant Bitnormal order reduction. (references)

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Photo Album: Leftmost

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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.

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

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Usage Frequency: Leftmost

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%7133,076

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

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Modern Translations: Leftmost

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

   

Russian 

  

крайний слева. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

koji je najdalji levo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

längst åt vänster. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cực tả. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Leftmost

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Leftmost


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

4C 65 66 74 6D 6F 73 74

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)

01001100 01100101 01100110 01110100 01101101 01101111 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#102 &#116 &#109 &#111 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0066 0074 006D 006F 0073 0074

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

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

4671728679818586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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