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PHOTORECEPTOR

Specialty Definition: PHOTORECEPTOR

DomainDefinition

Medicine

Receptor capable of being activated by light stimuli, as a rod or cone cell of the eye. Source: European Union. (references)

Physics

A highly specialized, light-sensitive cell or group of cells containing photopigments. Source: European Union. (references)

Science

A sensor sensitive to light. (references)

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

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Crosswords: PHOTORECEPTOR

Specialty definitions using "PHOTORECEPTOR": Son of Sevenless Protein, Drosophila, Son of Sevenless Proteins. (references)

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Usage Frequency: PHOTORECEPTOR

"PHOTORECEPTOR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PHOTORECEPTOR" is used about 3 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)100%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: PHOTORECEPTOR

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

photoreceptor

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: PHOTORECEPTOR

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

Danish

  

fotomodtager (light receptor), fotocellemodtager (light receptor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

lichtzintuigcel (light receptor), fotoreceptor (light receptor). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

valovastaanotin (light receptor), fotoreseptori (light receptor). (various references)

   

French

  

photorécepteur (photoceptor). (various references)

   

German

  

Photorezeptor (light receptor, photoceptor), Lichtrezeptor (light receptor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωτοφωρατής (light receptor), φωτοδέκτης (light receptor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricevitore fotosensibile (light receptor), fotorecettore (light receptor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otoreceptorphay

   

Portuguese

  

fotorreceptor (light receptor), foto-receptor (light receptor). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fotorreceptor (light receptor). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fotoreceptor (light receptor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: PHOTORECEPTOR

Derivations

Words beginning with "PHOTORECEPTOR": photoreceptors. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: PHOTORECEPTOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: prototroph.

-4 letters: octothorp, preceptor, protector.

-5 letters: poechore, potterer, receptor, torchere.

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

+1 letter: photoreceptors.

 

+4 letters: spectrophotometer, spectrophotometry.

 

+5 letters: electrophotography, spectrophotometers, spectrophotometric, stereophotographic.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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