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OCTOTHORPE

Specialty Definition: OCTOTHORPE

DomainDefinition

Computing

Octothorpe hash. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: OCTOTHORPE

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

octothorpe

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: OCTOTHORPE

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

French

  

symbole numéro. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

octothorpeay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: OCTOTHORPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-o-o-o-p-r-t-t"

-1 letter: octothorp.

-3 letters: cheroot, protect.

-4 letters: cohort, cooper, cooter, copter, cotter, hector, hooper, hoopoe, hooter, hotter, pother, potter, rochet, rotche, thorpe, tocher, tooter, toroth, tother, troche.

-5 letters: chert, chore, chott, cooer, coopt, coper, crept, ephor, epoch, hoper, ocher, ochre, octet, ortho, other, otter, perch, petto, photo, pooch, porch, potto, recto, repot, retch, rotch, rotte, thoro.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o-o-o-p-r-t-t"
 

+3 letters: iontophoretic, photodetector, photoelectron, photoreaction, photoreceptor.

 

+4 letters: cytophotometry, photodetectors, photoelectrons, photoreactions, photoreception, photoreceptors, photoreduction.

 

+5 letters: chemoautotrophy, cytophotometric, microphotometer, microphotometry, photoelectronic, photoreceptions, photoreductions.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OCTOTHORPE


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

4F 43 54 4F 54 48 4F 52 50 45

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001111 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010100 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#80 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0043 0054 004F 0054 0048 004F 0052 0050 0045

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

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

49375449544249525039

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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