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Rapid Eye Movement

Definition: Rapid Eye Movement

Rapid Eye Movement

Noun

1. A recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of Rapid Eye Movements during sleep.

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

Synonyms: Rapid Eye Movement

Synonyms: paradoxical sleep (n), rapid eye movement sleep (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Rapid Eye Movement

English words defined with "rapid eye movement": rapid eye movement sleep. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Rapid Eye Movement

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Sleep is divided into rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM sleep. (references)

This sleep state, called rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, is when dreaming occurs. (references)

It may be described as an intrusion of the dreaming state of sleep (called REM or rapid eye movement sleep) into the waking state. (references)

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

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Expression: Rapid Eye Movement

Expression using "rapid eye movement": rapid eye movement sleep. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Rapid Eye Movement

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

rapid eye movement

29
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Rapid Eye Movement

Language Translations for "rapid eye movement"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

レ 睡 (layer cake, lemon, lemon squash, lemon tea, lemon yellow, lemonade, length, lens, lens hood, rail bus, range, range food, ranger, release, relief, REM sleeping, stove). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

レ すいみ" (REM sleeping). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apidray eyeay ovementmay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Rapid Eye Movement

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-e-i-m-m-n-o-p-r-t-v-y"

-5 letters: depravement, dynamometer, improvement, overpayment, predominate.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Rapid Eye Movement


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

52 61 70 69 64      45 79 65      4D 6F 76 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

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

01010010 01100001 01110000 01101001 01100100 00100000 01000101 01111001 01100101 00100000 01001101 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#97 &#112 &#105 &#100 &#32 &#69 &#121 &#101 &#32 &#77 &#111 &#118 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0061 0070 0069 0064      0045 0079 0065      004D 006F 0076 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

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

5267827570239917124781887179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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