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RATE OF DECAY

Specialty Definition: RATE OF DECAY

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Aerospace

1. Of a sound, the time rate at which the sound pressure level (or other stated characteristic) decreases at a given point and at a given time. A commonly used unit is the decibel per second.2. Of a radioactive nuclide, the number of nuclei of that nuclide changing (or disintegrating) per unit time. It is usually expressed as the instantaneous rate of decay by - dN/dt where N is the total number of the state nuclides present at the given time t. (references)

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

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Crosswords: RATE OF DECAY

Specialty definitions using "RATE OF DECAY": decibel per second, decrement gageliquid scintillation countingpersistent current. (references)

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Anagrams: RATE OF DECAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-f-o-r-t-y"

-3 letters: acerated, decorate, defector, factored, federacy, foredate.

-4 letters: acerate, aerated, afeared, catered, cerated, cordate, crafted, created, decayer, decoyer, defacer, deforce, draftee, faceted, factory, feodary, forayed, fracted, ocreate, ratafee, reacted, redcoat, refaced.

-5 letters: aerate, afeard, afreet, aortae, arcade, carafe, carate, carted, cerate, coated, coatee, coater, crafty, crated, create, dafter, datary, deafer, decare, deface, defeat, defect.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RATE OF DECAY


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

52 41 54 45      4F 46      44 45 43 41 59

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

        

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

01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01000100 01000101 01000011 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#65 &#84 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#68 &#69 &#67 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0041 0054 0045      004F 0046      0044 0045 0043 0041 0059

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

523554392494023839373559

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