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NEPTUNISM

Specialty Definition: NEPTUNISM

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Mining

The theory, advocated by A. G. Werner in the 18th century, that the rocks of the Earth's crust all consist of material deposited sequentially from, or crystallized out of, water. Etymol: Neptune, Roman god of waters.CF:plutonism G. Werner in the 18th century, that the rocks of the Earth's crust all consist of material deposited sequentially from, or crystallized out of, water. Etymol: Neptune, Roman god of waters.CF:plutonism. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Neptunism

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Neptunism is a discredited theory of geology proposed in the late 18th century and early 19th century which proposed that rocks formed from the crystallization of minerals in the early Earth's oceans.

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Modern Translation: NEPTUNISM

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

German

  

neptunismus. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptunismnay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEPTUNISM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-m-n-n-p-s-t-u"

-1 letter: punniest.

-2 letters: emptins, impetus, imputes, minuets, minutes, mistune, muntins, mutines, pinetum, puniest, punnets, punties, tenpins, tunnies, unspent, uptimes.

-3 letters: ennuis, impute, inputs, instep, minuet, minute, mispen, muntin, mutine, pennis, pitmen, puisne, punnet, sennit, septum, spinet, supine, tennis, tenpin, tenuis, tinmen, unites, unpens, unpent, unpins, unsent, unstep, unties, upsent, uptime.

-4 letters: emits, ennui, etuis, inept.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-m-n-n-p-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: neptuniums, punishment.

 

+2 letters: pneumonitis, punishments.

 

+3 letters: antependiums, impoundments, premunitions, supereminent.

 

+4 letters: pneumonitides, supplementing, unimportances, unnilpentiums.

 

+5 letters: antepenultimas, nonconsumptive, supereminently, superincumbent.

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Alternative Orthography: NEPTUNISM


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

4E 45 50 54 55 4E 49 53 4D

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)

01001110 01000101 01010000 01010100 01010101 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#69 &#80 &#84 &#85 &#78 &#73 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0050 0054 0055 004E 0049 0053 004D

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

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

483950545548435347

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INDEX

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


  

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