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Definitions: Patency |
PatencyNoun1. The openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct. 2. The property of being easy to see and understand. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Patency \Pa"ten*cy\, noun. [See Patent.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PatencySynonyms: noticeability (n), noticeableness (n), obviousness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Patency |
| English words defined with "patency": Rubin test. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "patency": Anistreplase ♦ Fallopian Tube Patency Tests ♦ Vascular Patency. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, when there is residual hearing, the poorer ear should be chosen if there is radiologic evidence of cochlear patency to retain the option for continued hearing aid use and, thus, the potential advantages of binaural sound localization. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Patency" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Patency" is used about 59 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 59 | 44,010 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "patency": Fallopian Tube Patency Tests ♦ Vascular Patency. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 |
patency | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "patency"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | të qenët i qartë, të qenët evident. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المباح من, الوضوح (clearness, explicitness, fairness, legibility, pointedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | очевидност (evidence, obviousness, palpability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | patente (letters patent, patent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Offenkundigkeit (notoriousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nyilvánvalóság (conspicuousness, evidence, obviousness, palpability, perspicuity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atencypay prato raso, notoriedade (notoriety, palpable, prominency, prominent, publicity, publicness), impedimento (arrest, balk, batman, clog, cramp, delay, deterrent, embargo, estoppel, gag, hindrance, hitch, impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, preventer, prevention, preventive, stop, stoppage, trammels), evidência (evidence, ocarina, palpability, plainness). (various references) явность, очевидность (conspicuity, evidence, obviousness, palpability, plainness). (various references) otvorenost (candidness, candor, candour, extroversion, frankness, open mindedness, openness, plainness, unreserve), jasnost (clarity, perspicuity, vividness). (various references) tydlighet (clearness, definition, distinctness, legibility, obviousness, perspicuity, plainness), öppenhet (candidness, freedom, ingenuousness, openness). (various references) aşikârlık (manifestness), açıklık (aperture, baldness, berth, clarity, clearance, clearness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, directness, distance, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, erectness, evidence, fairness, gap, interstice, lightness, lucidity, lucidness, manifestness, obviousness, openness, palpability, perspicuity, plainness, preciseness, publicity, rift, roundness, space, spread, straightforwardness, the open, vacancy, yard). (various references) явність (apparency, openness), очевидність (apparency, appearance, blatancy, evidence, openness). (various references) sự hiển nhiên (blatancy, flagrancy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "patency" (pronounced 'Pa"ten*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy, Autocracy, Axinomancy, Bankruptcy, Baronetcy, Belomancy, Benignancy, Bibliomancy, Bivalency, Blatancy, Botanomancy, Brevetcy, Brillancy, Buoyancy, Bureaucracy, Cadency, Candidacy, Capnomancy, Captaincy, Cartomancy, Catoptromancy, Cecutiency, Celibacy, Centripetency, Ceromancy, Chaomancy, Chaplaincy, Chartomancy, Chiromancy, Circumambiency, Clemency, Cleromancy, Cliency, Coadjuvancy, Coagency, Coefficacy, Coefficiency, Cogency, Coincibency, Colluctancy, Colonelcy, Commorancy, Compliancy, Complicacy, Concludency, Concordancy, Concubinacy, Concurrency, Congeneracy, Congruency, Connivency, Conservancy, Conspiracy, Constancy, Constituency, Contingency, Contumacy, Conversancy, Cornetcy, Correspondency, Coscinomancy, Couchancy, Crystallomancy, Curacy, Currency, Dactyliomancy, Dactylomancy, Dancy, Daphnomancy, Decency, Decipiency, Deficiency, Degeneracy, Delegacy, Delicacy, Delinquency, Deliracy, Delirancy, Delitescency, Demency, Democracy, Demonocracy, Dependency, Depopulacy, Despiciency, Despondency, Detergency, Determinacy, Diffidency, Diligency, Diplomacy, Disappendency, Disconsolacy, Discumbency, Disfancy, Disobediency, Displacency, Dissonancy, Distancy, Docimacy, Dormancy, Doulocracy, Dubitancy, Durancy, Effeminacy, Efficacy, Efflorescency, Effluency, Electro-thermancy, Emergency, Eminency, -ency, Enoptomancy, Ensigncy, Episcopacy, Equipendency, Equitancy, Equivalency, Equivocacy, Errancy, Esnecy, Excellency, Excrescency, Exigency, Existency, Exsiliency, Extacy, Extancy, Extravagancy, Extuberancy, Exuberancy, Fallacy, Fallency, Farcy, Feculency, Fermacy, fervency, Flagrancy, fleecy, flippancy, fluency, frequency, Fritinancy, Fugacy, Fulgency, Gastromancy, Geomancy, Gerontocracy, Gramercy, Gunocracy, Gynecocracy, Gyneocracy, Gynocracy, Gyromancy, Habiitancy, Hagiocracy, Haruspicy, hesitancy, Heterocercy, Hierocracy, Hieromancy, Homocercy, hydromancy, Ichthyomancy, icy, Idiocracy, idiocy, Idiotcy, illegitimacy, illiteracy, Imitancy, immediacy, Immoderacy, Immoderancy, Impatiency, Impeccancy, impenitency, Impertinency, Impolicy, Importancy, Importunacy, Impudency, inaccuracy, inadequacy, Incalescency, incessancy, Incidency, inclemency, Inconsideracy, inconsistency, inconstancy, Inconveniency, incumbency, indecency, Indeficiency, indelicacy, independency, Indifferency, Indigency, Indistancy, Indolency, Indulgency, inefficacy, inefficiency, inerrancy, INFANCY, Inmacy, Innitency, Innocency, Inordinacy, Insignificancy, Insitency, Insolency, insolvency, instancy, insufficiency, Intelligency, Intemperancy, Intendancy, Interagency, interdependency, Interluency, Intermediacy, Interregency, Intestacy, INTIMACY, Intolerancy, intricacy, Inveteracy, Inviolacy, Irregeneracy, Irrelavancy, Itineracy, Itinerancy, Jactancy, Jesuitocracy, Joyancy, juicy, Kakistocracy, Lasciviency, latency, Latitancy, Lecanomancy, legacy, legitimacy, Leucophlegmacy, Liegiancy, lieutenancy, Liquescency, literacy, lithomancy, Lucency, lunacy, Luxuriancy, Macilency, magistracy, Maledicency, -mancy, Manutenency, mediacy, mendicancy, mercy, Meteoromancy, Metopomancy, militancy, Ministracy, Mispolicy, Mobocracy, monocracy, Mordicancy, Mugiency, Myomancy, Nascency, Necromancy, Neocracy, Nomancy, Nomocracy, Nonproficiency, Nonsolvency, normalcy, Obduracy, Obeisancy, Observancy, Obstancy, Obstetricy, Obstinacy, Occupancy, Ochlocracy, Omnipresency, Omnisciency, Omphalomancy, Oneiromancy, onomancy, Onomomancy, Onychomancy, Ophiomancy, Opponency, Oppugnancy, Optimacy, Opulency, Oriency, Ornithomancy, Orphancy, Oscillancy, Oscitancy, pancy, Pantisocracy, Papacy, Parturiency, Peccancy, Pedantocracy, Pedomancy, Pegomancy, Pendency, Penitency, Pernancy, Perspicacy, Pervicacy, Pharmacy, Piquancy, piracy, Plangency, Plantocracy, Pliancy, Plutocracy, Poignancy, Polycracy, Polypharmacy, Populacy, Potency, Potentacy, Predisponency, Predominancy, Preexistency, Prefulgency, Pregnancy, Prejudicacy, Prelacy, Preoccupancy, Prepotency, Presidency, Prevalency, Prevenancy, Primacy, Privacy, Probacy, Procuracy, Profligacy, Prolificacy, Propendency, Prophecy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-n-p-t-y" | |
-2 letters: canty, enact, epact, panty, paten, peaty, pecan, yenta. | |
-3 letters: acne, ante, cane, cant, cape, cate, cent, cyan, etna, nape, neap, neat, pace, pact, pane, pant, pate, paty, pean, peat, pent, tace, tape, tepa, tyne, type, yean. | |
-4 letters: ace, act, ane, ant, any, ape, apt, ate, aye, can, cap, cat, cay, cep, eat, eta, nae, nap, nay, net, pac, pan, pat, pay, pea, pec, pen, pet, pya, pye, tae, tan, tap, tea, ten, tye, yap, yea, yen, yep, yet. | |
-5 letters: ae, an, at, ay, en, et, na, ne, pa, pe, ta, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-n-p-t-y" | |
+2 letters: appetency, carpentry, copayment, pachytene, peccantly, pentarchy, petulancy, syncopate. | |
+3 letters: catchpenny, copayments, expectancy, pachytenes, syncopated, syncopates. | |
+4 letters: acceptingly, amylopectin, antipyretic, counterplay, expectantly, genotypical, hypocentral, lycanthrope, pertinacity, predynastic, presynaptic, syncopative, typecasting, typicalness. | |
+5 letters: amylopectins, antipyretics, appendectomy, compensatory, complacently, conceptually, contemporary, counterplays, discrepantly, entropically, intercompany, lycanthropes, opalescently, pancytopenia, parenchymata, pedantically, phenotypical, phonetically, pinealectomy, pneumaticity, precipitancy, proteoglycan, transparency, unacceptably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 74 65 6E 63 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .- - . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a t e n c y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 0074 0065 006E 0063 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50678671806991 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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