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Definition: Lethal Dose |
Lethal DoseNoun1. The size dose that will cause death. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Energy | The dose of radiation expected to cause death to an exposed population within 30 days to 50 percent (LD 50/30) of those exposed (Lethal dose (LD) 50/30). Typically, the LD 50/30 is in the range from 400 to 450 rem (4 to 5 sieverts) received over a very short period of time. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The amount of insecticide, its active ingredient, or other toxicant necessary to kill a specified proportion of an insect population. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A dose of ionizing radiation sufficient to cause death. Median lethal dose (abbreviated MLD or LD50 ) is the dose required to kill half of the individuals in a group similarly exposed within a specified period oftime. The median lethal dose for humans is about 400 rads. (references) |
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Crosswords: Lethal Dose |
| Specialty definitions using "lethal dose": LD 50/ Lethal Dose, Lethal Dose 50 ♦ mean lethal dose, median lethal dose ♦ Therapeutic Index. (references) |
Expressions using "lethal dose": lethal dose 50 ♦ lethal dose of poison ♦ mean lethal dose ♦ median lethal dose. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lethal dose | 13 |
lethal dose 50 | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "lethal dose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | letaldosis, doedelig dosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | lethale dosis, letale dosis, L.D., dosis lethalis, dodelijke dosis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tappava annos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dose mortelle, dose létale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | letale Dosis, Letaldosis, tödliche Dosis, Dosis letalis. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μέση θανατηφόρος δόση (LD 50, median lethal dosis), θανατηφόρα δόση, θανατηφόρος δόσις. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halálos adag (overdose). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dose mortale, dose letale, dose fatale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 致死量 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちしりょう. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ethallay oseday dose mortal, dose letal. (various references) смертельная доза. (various references) dosis letal. (various references) letaldos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-h-l-l-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: hostelled, leasehold. | |
-2 letters: desolate, hosteled, theelols. | |
-3 letters: allseed, daleths, delates, elodeas, halloed, halloes, headset, helloed, helloes, hollaed, leashed, lethals, loathed, loathes, oleates, shallot, shelled, shoaled, solated, stalled, theelol. | |
-4 letters: aholds, aldols, aldose, allees, allods, allots, atolls, daleth, dalles, deaths, delate, deltas, desalt, dholes, elated, elates, eldest, elodea, halest, hallos, hallot, haloed, haloes, halted, haoles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 74 68 61 6C 44 6F 73 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01110100 01101000 01100001 01101100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e t h a l   D o s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0074 0068 0061 006C 0044 006F 0073 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467186746778238818571 |
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