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Nitrite

Definition: Nitrite

Nitrite

Noun

1. The radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid).

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

Date "nitrite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

Etymology: Nitrite \Ni"trite\, noun. [Compare to the French expression nitrite. See Niter.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Nitrite

DomainDefinitions

Environment

1. An intermediate in the process of nitrification. 2. Nitrous oxide salts used in food preservation. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: Nitrite

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Nitrite is the radical NO2- or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nitrite."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Nitrite

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField
NiREnglishNitrite reductaseN/A

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

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Crosswords: Nitrite

English words defined with "nitrite": Azotitebutyl nitriteCobalt yellowisobutyl nitrite-itenitrite bacterium, nitrous acidpoppersodium nitrite, Spirit of nitrous ether, StryphnicVanadite. (references)
Specialty definitions using "nitrite": Amyl NitriteGlutathione Transferase, Gram-Negative Chemolithotrophic Bacterialead azidemethaemoglobinaemiaNitrite Reductases, Nitrobacteraceae. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nitrite" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (nitrite).

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Commercial Usage: Nitrite

DomainTitle

Books

  • DEEPAK NITRITE LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Nitrite Cured Meat: A Food Safety Issue in Perspective (reference)

  • Nitrite Curing of Meat: The Nitrosamine Problem and Nitrite Alternatives (Publications in Food Science and Nutrition) (reference)

  • Proceedings of the International Symposium on Nitrite in Meat Products, held at the Central Institute for Nutrition and Food Research TNO, Zeist, the Netherlands, September 10-14, 1973 (reference)

  • Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Nitrite in Meat Products, Central Institute for Nutrition and Food Research TNO, Zeist, the Netherlands, September 7-10, 1976 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nitrite

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

The strips detect nitrite, which is formed when bacteria change nitrate in the urine to nitrite. (references)

Soderberg, L.S. Immunomodulation by nitrite inhalants may predispose abusers to AIDS and Kaposi's sarcoma. (references)

A recent study found that even a relatively small number of exposures to butyl nitrite can produce dramatic increases in tumor incidence and growth rates in animals. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nitrite

"Nitrite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.63% of the time. "Nitrite" is used about 73 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)98.63%7239,377
Adjective (general or positive)1.37%1339,140
                    Total100.00%73N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: Nitrite

CountryName
India

Deepak Nitrite Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Nitrite

Expressions using "nitrite": ammonium nitrite Amyl nitrite butyl nitrite isobutyl nitrite nitrite bacterium Nitrite Reductases Sodium Nitrite. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Containing "nitrite": ammonia-nitrite-nitrate.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nitrite

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

nitrite

39

sodium nitrite

37

amyl nitrite

23

isobutyl nitrite

8

butyl nitrite

6

potassium nitrite

5

nitrate nitrite

4

nitrite poisoning pond

3

detoxification nitrite

3

bacon free nitrite

3

allergy nitrite

3

ammonium nitrite

3

nitrite salt sodium

3

free meat nitrite

3

environment nitrite

3

aquarium nitrite

2

level nitrite

2

alkyl nitrite

2

nitrite urine

2

nitrite ion

2
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Modern Translations: Nitrite

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

Albanian

  

nitrat potasiumi (niter, nitre). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏النتريت ملح الحامض النتري. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

нитрит. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

亚硝酸盐. (various references)

   

Danish

  

nitritprøve (nitrite test), nitrit-kryddersalt (nitrite pickling salt), nitritkonserveringsalt (nitrite curing salt), nitritforgiftning (nitrite intoxication), natriumnitrit (sodium nitrite), natriumnitrat, -nitrit og -silikat er uorganiske inhibitorer (nitrite and silicate are inorganic inhibitors, sodium nitrate), nitritsalt til nedsaltning (nitrite pickling salt), kaliumcobaltnitrit (cobalt potassium nitrite, Fischer's yellow, potassium cobaltnitrite), ammoniumnitrit (ammonium nitrite), cobaltkaliumnitrit (cobalt potassium nitrite, Fischer's yellow, potassium cobaltnitrite), dobbelnitrit (double nitrite), E249 (potassium nitrite), E250 (sodium nitrite), Ethylnitrit (Ethyl nitrite), Fischer's gult (cobalt potassium nitrite, Fischer's yellow, potassium cobaltnitrite), alkalinitrit (alkaline nitrite), kaliumnitrit (potassium nitrite), flydende litiumnitrit (liquid lithium nitrite). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

nitrietpekelzout (nitrite curing salt), natriumnitriet (sodium nitrite), natriumnitraat, natriumnitriet en natriumsilicaat zijn anorganische inhibitoren (nitrite and silicate are inorganic inhibitors, sodium nitrate), vloeibaar lithiumnitriet (liquid lithium nitrite), kaliumnitriet (potassium nitrite), kaliumkobaltnitriet (cobalt potassium nitrite, Fischer's yellow, potassium cobaltnitrite), Fischer's zout (cobalt potassium nitrite, Fischer's yellow, potassium cobaltnitrite), Ethylnitriet (Ethyl nitrite), E250 (sodium nitrite), E249 (potassium nitrite), dubbelnitriet (double nitrite), ammoniumnitriet (ammonium nitrite), alkalinitriet (alkaline nitrite). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

natriumnitriitti (E250, sodium nitrite), natriumnitraatti,-nitriitti ja-silikaatti ovat epäorgaanisia inhibiittejä (nitrite and silicate are inorganic inhibitors, sodium nitrate), kaliumnitriitti (E249, potassium nitrite), E 250 (E250, sodium nitrite), E 249 (E249, potassium nitrite). (various references)

   

French

  

nitrite. (various references)

   

German

  

nitrit. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νιτρώδεσ αλάτι. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nitrit. (various references)

   

Italian

  

nitrito (neigh, whinny). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

亜硝酸塩 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

あしょうさ"え". (various references)

   

Manx

  

neetreet. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

itritenay

   

Portuguese

  

nitrito, nitrificar-se. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nitrit. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нитрит. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nitrit. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nitrito. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

nitrit. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สาร nitrate. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

nitrit asit tuzu, nitrit. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сіль азотистої кислоти. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Nitrite

Derivations

Words beginning with "nitrite": nitrites. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Nitrite" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: intreate, narcite, Negrete, negrito, neqrita, neurite, Ngiriye, nichrome, nitrene, nitrine, norite, norlite. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Nitrite"

Words rhyming with "nitrite" (pronounced 'Ni"trite'): Hyponitrite. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Nitrite

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nittier.

Words within the letters "e-i-i-n-r-t-t"

-1 letter: retint, tinier, tinter.

-2 letters: inert, inter, niter, nitre, titer, titre, trine, trite.

-3 letters: inti, nett, nite, rein, rent, rite, tent, tern, tier, tine, tint, tire, titi, tret.

-4 letters: ern, ire, net, nit, rei, ret, rin, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit.

-5 letters: en, er, et, in, it, ne, re, ti.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-i-n-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: intermit, intertie, nitrites, retinite.

 

+2 letters: bittering, detrition, enteritis, integrity, intercity, interdict, interknit, intermits, internist, interties, intertill, interunit, intimater, intricate, iterating, iteration, itinerant, itinerate, jittering, littering, nutritive, refitting, remitting, resitting, retinites, retinitis, retinting, retitling, rivetting, tittering, tretinoin, tricotine, trinities, wintriest.

 

+3 letters: antierotic, antilitter, antistrike, centiliter, centricity, chittering, detritions, distincter, entireties, eternities, flittering, frittering, glittering, grittiness, infiltrate, ingratiate, instituter, interdicts, interfaith, interknits, internists, interpoint, interstice, intertidal, intertills, intertrial, intertwine, intertwist, intimaters, intreating, iterations, itinerants, itinerated, itinerates, literation, miswritten, permitting, petitioner, recitation, reemitting, reinitiate, reknitting, repetition, resittings, retwisting, skittering, stringiest, tanistries, tetrazzini, thorianite, tortellini, transitive, tretinoins, tricotines, trinketing, tripinnate, trisecting, trisection, tristearin, triunities, twittering, winteriest, wintertide, wintertime, zwitterion.

 

+4 letters: antipyretic, antirealist, antistories, briquetting, centiliters, certainties, clarinetist, condottieri, creationist, crepitating, crepitation, dentistries, determinist, disinterest, elutriating, elutriation, embittering, embrittling, enteritides, enteritises, erotization, extirpating, extirpation, extraditing, extradition, extricating, extrication, imbittering, impertinent, impetrating, impetration, incertitude, infertility, infiltrated, infiltrates, ingratiated, ingratiates, ingratitude, ingurgitate, instituters, instructive, integrality, integrating, integration, integrative, integrities, interacting, interaction, interactive, interatomic, interdicted, interdictor, interesting, interethnic, interiority, intermitted, intermitter, internality, interpoints, interstices, interstrain, intertilled, intertribal, intertwined, intertwines, intertwists, intrepidity, intricately, intromitted, intromitter, investiture, irredentist, itinerantly, itinerating, itineration, jitteriness, literations, martensitic, maternities, metrication, mistreating, natriuretic, notorieties, nutritively, orientalist, orientating, orientation, outintrigue, partitioned, partitioner, paternities, peritonitis, pertinacity, petitionary, petitioners, pirouetting, precipitant, prettifying, ratiocinate, readmitting, reattaining, recitations, reinitiated, reinitiates, reinstating, reinstitute, reiterating, reiteration, rentability, repartition, repetitions, resplitting, restitching, restituting, restitution, restricting, restriction, retaliating, retaliation, retentivity, retinitides, retribution, rotundities, straitening, terminating, termination, terminative, texturizing, thirstiness, thorianites, thriftiness, tortellinis, transfinite, trepidation, trinketries, trisections, tristearins, typewriting, unremitting, vinaigrette, wintertides, wintertimes, zwitterions.

 

+5 letters: acetonitrile, actinometric, administrate, airtightness, alliterating, alliteration, anticreative, antientropic, antihysteric, antiliterate, antineutrino, antiparticle, antipyretics, antirealists, centralistic, centralities, centricities, chitterlings, clarinetists, clarinettist, constrictive, contributive, creationists, crepitations, determinists, disintegrate, disinterests, disinterment, disorientate, dissertating, dissertation, ditransitive, divertimenti, divertimento, earsplitting, eccentricity, elutriations, endometritis, entertaining, erotizations, eternization, etherization, exercitation, expatriating, expatriation, extirpations, extortionist, extraditions, extrications, fraternities, frontalities, glitteringly, grittinesses, impetrations, inarticulate, incertitudes, indoctrinate, infiltrative, ingratitudes, ingurgitated, ingurgitates, integrations, intenerating, inteneration, interactions, intercepting, interception, intercutting, interdicting, interdiction, interdictive, interdictors, interdictory, interfertile, interjecting, interjection, interknitted, intermediate, intermitotic, intermittent, intermitters, intermitting, intermixture, interorbital, interpreting, interpretive, interrupting, interruption, interruptive, intersecting, intersection, intersociety, interstadial, interstation, intersterile, interstimuli, interstitial, interstrains, intertidally, intertillage, intertilling, intertwining, intertwisted, intervention, intransigent, intransitive, intrauterine, introjecting, introjection, intromittent, intromitters, introverting, investigator, investitures, invitatories, irredentists, itinerations, laterization, mercantilist, metrications, misinterpret, natriuretics, neutralistic, neutralities, nonnutritive, obliterating, obliteration, obstetrician, operationist, orientalists, orientations, orotundities, outintrigued, outintrigues, pancreatitis, partitioners, penitentiary, periodontist, petrifaction, practitioner, preadmitting, precipitants, quaternities, ratiocinated, ratiocinates, reactivating, reactivation, receptionist, recommitting, reductionist, reestimating, registration, rehabilitant, reindictment, reinitiating, reinstituted, reinstitutes, reiterations, remotivating, remotivation, reoutfitting, repartitions, repatriating, repatriation, repetitional, repristinate, restitutions, restrictions, resubmitting, retaliations, reticulating, reticulation, retightening, retributions, retrodicting, retrodiction, retrofitting, ricochetting, sempiternity, stationeries, strategizing, strontianite, superstition, syncretistic, tensiometric, terminations, theoretician, theorization, titaniferous, transitively, trephination, trepidations, tripinnately, turpentining, typewritings, unstratified, vinaigrettes, vituperating, vituperation, zwitterionic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Nitrite


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

4E 69 74 72 69 74 65

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 01101001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#105 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0069 0074 0072 0069 0074 0065

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

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

48758684758671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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