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Definitions: Scaling |
ScalingNoun1. The act of arranging in a graduated series. 2. Act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale. 3. Ascent by or as if by a ladder. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scaling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references) |
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Agriculture | A method by which Forest Service personnel, or an independent third-party to measures the volume of timber actually removed as a result of a timber sale. Scaled sales are a timber sales that use scaling for billing purchasers at the stumpage price for the timber cut. (references) |
Building & Civil Engineering | Aggravation of cracking producing loss of small areas of surfacing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Computing | Enlarging or diminishing all or part of a display image. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Division par une constante. . . . . to scale: to change the magnitude of a variable in a uniform way, as by multiplying or dividing by a constant factor. . . Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The increasing or decreasing of the character, for a generator of graphic characters or of a drawing, without changing the proportions of their elements. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | Counting pulses with a scaler when the pulses occur too fast for direct counting by conventional means. Source: European Union. (references) |
| An operation, generally preceding analogue-to-digital conversion either by amplification or by attenuation, to match the range of the input signal to that of the convertor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Deposition of water insoluble constituents on a metal surface. (Eurodicautom)The presence of chemicals in the fluid, precipitating afte r flashing, gives rise to encrustation in both the pipelines and machinery. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Metallurgy | Scaling law = a law expressing the effects of scaling up ( or down ) the size of a blast furnace. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In whiteheart malleable after annealing in oxidising atmosphere:separation of layers parallel to the surface of the casting. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Flaking off of oxide scale. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | 1. removing, with a bar, loose rock from the sides and roof of mine workings;2. the plucking down of loose stones or coal adhering to the solid face after a shot or a round of shots has been fired. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The plucking down of loose stones or coal adhering to the solid face after a shot or round of shots has been fired. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| A. The plucking down of loose stones or coal adhering to the solid face after a shot or a round of shots has been fired b. Removal of loose rocks from the roof or walls. Also called ramming.CF:exfoliation. (references) | |
Public Administration | A measurement, arrangement, or adjustment according to a scale. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ScalingSynonym: grading (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Street's Zouaves and Wall Scaling (1901) Scaling a Fort at Manila (1899) Wall Scaling (1897) | |
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 | Scaling the tapes from recording current meters Working on the OCEANOGRAPHER.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | First Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez, USMC, leads the 3rd Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines over the seawall on the northern side of Red Beach, as the second assault wave lands, 15 September 1950. Wooden scaling ladders are in use to facilitate disembarkation from the LCVP that brought these men to the shore. Lt. Lopez was killed in action within a few minutes, while assaulting a North Korean bunker. Note M-1 Carbine carried by Lt. Lopez, M-1 Rifles of other Marines and details of the Marines' field gear.Credit: NAVY. |
 | High school Victory Corps. The "commando" training course offered by the physical education department of Flushing High School, Queens, New York, includes scaling an eight-foot obtacle at top speed. When the boys finish the course they will be in top phys.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Scaling a wall and the theft includes everything. |
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Health | The periodontist puts it in the pockets after scaling and root planing. (references) | |
This medication is in pill form. It is used in combination with scaling and root planing. (references) | ||
Most treatments focus on topical skin care to relieve the inflammation, itching, and scaling. (references) | ||
Business | The reason Godal describes it as double conversion is because it will entail, on the one hand, scaling down activities to conform with reduced economic parameters, and on the other hand, realigning structures to suit future tasks and technology. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Romania | A joint Orthodox and Greek Catholic committee formed by government decree in 1990 has failed to resolve the issue due to Orthodox resistance, despite the scaling back of the Greek Catholic requests from 2,600 properties to 300 churches. (references) |
Economic History | Jordan | Meanwhile, Jordan's nascent info tech sector is scaling back growth projections in the face of a global IT slowdown and a slowdown in investments as a result of West Bank violence. (references) |
Botswana | Currently the SMME policy and the Local Procurement Program use the turnover scale to determine project parameters, whilst the FAP uses the investment scaling to define into which category projects fall. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | During negotiations on a new stand-by agreement the IMF expressed concern over the potential loss of tax revenue and wants the government to maintain a budget deficit of less than 0.5 percent of GDP. With a potentially worsening international economic situation following the September 11 events, the government is reducing its growth estimates, facing less flexibility in policy choices, and reportedly scaling back its tax cut proposals. (references) |
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| "Scaling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 65.32% of the time. "Scaling" is used about 124 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 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 65.32% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.97% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 9.68% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.03% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 124 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scaling": Dental Scaling ♦ manpower scaling guide ♦ scaling down ♦ scaling factor ♦ scaling ladder ♦ scaling law ♦ scaling to 200%. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scaling": scaling-ladders, scaling-ropes, scaling-up. | |
Ending with "scaling": attitude-scaling, grey-scaling, re-scaling. | |
| 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 |
scaling | 47 |
multidimensional scaling | 16 |
dental scaling | 12 |
scaling tooth | 10 |
gyro laser ring scaling | 6 |
goal attainment scaling | 5 |
recipe scaling | 5 |
scaling ultrasonic | 4 |
fish scaling | 4 |
log scaling | 4 |
cast iron scaling | 3 |
deep scaling | 3 |
periodontal scaling | 3 |
scaling scalp | 3 |
geometric scaling | 3 |
cold fusion scaling | 3 |
image scaling | 3 |
scaling skin | 3 |
root scaling | 3 |
gum scaling | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scaling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shkallë zjarrfikëse (scaling ladder), shkallë e lartë për mur (scaling ladder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | متسلق (ascending, climbing, rambling), تسلق (ascent, climb, creep, get over, get up, mount, mounting, ramble, scale, scramble, surmount, swarm, swarm up), تدريج (calibration, graduation), التسلق (climbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обсадна стълба (scaling ladder), пожарникарска стълба (scaling ladder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "垢. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | žebřík (ladder, scaling ladder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skalning, skaldannelse, skællen (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), scale-dannelse (encrustation, incrustation), kedelstensdannelse (furring, incrustation), afskalning (abrasion, decortication, desquamation, dodder elimination, eliminating dodder, exfoliation, flaking, hulling, husking, peeling, pitting, popping, shelling, undermining), belægning (coating, crowding, crowding level, encrustation, fur, incrustation, seizing, stocking, stocking level), dannelse af gloedeskaller, deskvamation (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), desquamatio (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), desquamation (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), aflejring af udfældede stoffer (encrustation, incrustation), exfoliation (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), vurdering af rummeter, måleværditilpasning, omregning til en faelles skala, oxidskal, desquamering (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schilfering (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), schaalverandering, ontdoen van aanslag (defurring, deliming, descaling), afschilfering (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), defurfuratio (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), desquamatie (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), desquamatio (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), incrustatie (encrustation, incrustation), ketelsteenafzetting (furring, incrustation), maatanalyse, afschilferen (flake off, peel off, scabbing, scale off, to flake(off), to spall), omrekening naar een gemeenschappelijke schaal, volumebepaling, ontkalken (defurring, deliming, descaling), oxydebladering, oxydehuid (mill scale, mill-scale, scale), verkalking (calcification, cerebellar marrow, encrustation, incrustation), verschaling, meetgebiedaanpassing voor AD-omzetters. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | skaalaus AD-muunnokselle, skaalaus, likaantuminen (encrustation, fouling, incrustation), kuoriutuminen (hatching), karstaantuminen (encrustation, incrustation), hilseily (chipping, desquamation, exfoliation, flaking, peeling, the degree of corrosion is determined by weighing before and after the oxide scale has blistered off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | écaillage (scabbing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Skalieren, Normieren (standardize), die Größe verändernd. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απολέπιση (defurring, deliming, descaling, desquamation, fretting, peeling, plucking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "רו' (grading, rating, terracing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lemérés (weighing), arányosítás (proportioning), fejtés (shelling, stripping), felvázolás (adumbration, delineation, tracing), fokozatokra osztás (graduation), köbözés (measure), kalibrálás (calibration, rating, sizing), kiegyenlítés (acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, acquitting, adequation, alignment, clearing, equalization, equation, return, satisfaction, settlement, trimming), kihámozás, kihüvelyezés, lépték szerinti másolás, léptékmódosítás, lehámlás (exfoliation), lehámozás (shelling, stripping), aránykiszámítás, levelesedés, vízkő-eltávolítás, réteg-leválás, rétegképződés, megmérés, megmázsálás, lehántolás, méretcsoportosítás, lekaparás (rasping), levakarás (rasping), leválasztás (detachment), leválás (abruption, breakaway, detachment, separation, spalling, stall, stalling, stripping), lepikkelyezés, leosztás (hand), vízkőképződés, mérlegelés (deliberation, discretion, pondering, reconsideration, weigh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scalata (ascent, climb, climbing, escalate), scala di valutazione, scagliatura, rappresentazione in scala, pellicola d'ossido, messa in scala, incrostazione (accretion, build-up, build-up effect, cake, crud, crust, crusting, embossing, encrustation, fouling, fur, furring, incrustant, incrustation, scale, scale crust, scale deposit, tit, wart, water scale), formazione di scaglia, formazione di incrostazioni, esfoliazione (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), disincrostazione (defurring, deliming, descaling, pickling, scouring), desquamazione (desquamation, exfoliation, peeling), cubatura degli alberi, atterrati. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 登" (ascending, climbing), スケート靴 (scale, scale merit, scaling factor, scapegoat, schedule, scheduler, scheduling, scherzo, skateboard, skates, skeleton, skeptic, skepticism, sketch, sketch phone, sketchbook, vernier). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スケーリング , とうは" (ascending, burglary, climbing, larceny, the eastern half). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 스케일링. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alingscay redução a uma escala comum, pôr escala, incrustação (accretion, build-up, build-up effect, crud, crud deposits, embossing, encrustation, fouling, fur, incrustant, incrustation, inlaid work, inlay, scale, scale crust, scale deposit, tit, wart, water scale), formação de escamas, formação de calamina, esfoliação (desquamation, exfoliation, exhalation, peeling), esfarelamento, escalada (clamber, clambering, climb, climbing, escalade, escalate, escalation, upswing), desencrostar (defurring, deliming, descaling), descamação (chipping, desquamation, exfoliation, flaking, peeling), cubagem (cubage, dipping, gauging, volume), calaminagem. (various references) масштабировать масштабирование. (various references) streap (climb, scale, strive against obstacles, striving). (various references) požarničke lestve (scaling ladder), lestve za spašavanje (scaling ladder), lestve za izlaženje iz rova (scaling ladder). (various references) escalada (climb, escalate, escalation), desincrustación (defurring, deliming, descaling). (various references) skalning (cornhusking, flaking, husking, maize husking), glödskalbildning, fjällning (peeling), beläggningar (encrustation, incrustation), avflagning (flaking, popping, slabbing). (various references) yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, step up, swell, swelling, upheaval, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), pullarını ayıklama, kefeli taşı ile düşürme, artma (accession, gain, improvement, increase, increment, pickup, step up, swell). (various references) усунення накипу, утворення накипу, обчислення розмірів за масштабом, масштабне копіювання. (various references) thang leo tường pháo đ i (scaling-ladder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "scaling": berascaling, downscaling, rescaling, upscaling. (additional references) | |
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"Scaling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mccalliog, Saclant, Saling, scabini, scailing, scaleing, scalen, Scali, scalien, scaline, scalingc, scalings, scalling, Scallini, Scalvini, scaning, Scaping, Scarlino, scating, scawling, sceilig, scilian, scilling, Skaling, spaling, swaling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scaling" (pronounced skā"ling) |
| 4 | -ā" l i ng | ailing, assailing, bailing, baling, curtailing, derailing, detailing, entailing, failing, flailing, Grayling, hailing, inhaling, jailing, mailing, nailing, prevailing, railing, regaling, sailing, surveilling, tailing, trailing, unavailing, unfailing, unveiling, veiling, wailing, whaling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | ambling, angling, annealing, appalling, appealing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unwilling, waffling, waggling, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: lacings. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: algins, aligns, casing, clangs, clings, glacis, lacing, lasing, liangs, ligans, linacs, lingas, signal. | |
-2 letters: acing, algin, align, anils, cains, clags, clang, clans, cling, gains, glans, glias, laics, liang, ligan, linac, linga, lings, nails, salic, slain, slang, sling, snail. | |
-3 letters: agin, ails, ains, anil, anis, asci, cain, cans, cigs, clag, clan, gain, gals, gins, glia, lacs, lags, laic, lain, lang, ling, lins, nags, nail, nils, sail, sain, sang, scag, scan, sial, sign, sing, slag, snag. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, ais, als, ani, can, cig, cis, gal, gan, gas, gin, ins, lac, lag, las, lin, lis, nag, nil, sac, sag, sal, sic, sin. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai, al, an, as, in, is, la, li, na, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: callings, carlings, castling, catlings, clashing, clasping, classing, scalding, scalping, slacking, solacing. | |
+2 letters: analgesic, angelicas, anglicise, anglicism, antalgics, blackings, cagelings, callusing, capsuling, caulkings, claddings, cleansing, clearings, gasolinic, lacewings, laicising, logicians, nostalgic, rescaling, scabbling, scantling, sclaffing, scrawling, shackling, spackling, tacklings, upscaling. | |
+3 letters: accusingly, analgesics, analgetics, anglicised, anglicises, anglicisms, anglicizes, beclasping, caliginous, callousing, canalising, clearwings, clientages, coalescing, collapsing, collegians, cracklings, crashingly, declassing, displacing, elegancies, enclasping, escalading, escalating, escaloping, focalising, galenicals, hatchlings, inclasping, localising, miscalling, misplacing, nostalgics, opalescing, osculating, reclasping, scalloping, scandaling, scantlings, scathingly, scrabbling, scrambling, slackening, spanceling, unclasping, vigilances, vocalising. | |
+4 letters: allegiances, anglicising, backlashing, backlisting, backsliding, berascaling, blackenings, capsulizing, caressingly, cartelising, changelings, classifying, consignable, disclaiming, dislocating, downscaling, encapsuling, escalloping, flagrancies, gesticulant, glaciations, glauconites, glucokinase, glucosamine, gracileness, inelegances, italicising, landscaping, latchstring, linecasting, logicalness, logistician, lowercasing, malignances, misclaiming, misclassing, mislocating, nonsurgical, nosological, oscillating, outclassing, plangencies, playactings, scaffolding, scandalling, screamingly, searchingly, shellacking, sinological, socialising, socializing, spancelling, speculating, subclassing, telecasting, unceasingly, unshackling, vulcanising. | |
+5 letters: algolagniacs, auscultating, backslapping, blacklisting, bricklayings, candlelights, capitalising, caramelising, centralising, centrifugals, cladogenesis, classicizing, cliffhangers, coagulations, colligations, congelations, contagiously, convalescing, cosmogonical, craniologies, crystalizing, decreasingly, deescalating, descrambling, diagnostical, emasculating, evangelicals, evangelistic, gallinaceous, geanticlines, geosynclinal, glucokinases, glucosamines, glycerinates, increasingly, inosculating, latchstrings, linebackings, linecastings, linguistical, logisticians, malignancies, misbalancing, mucilaginous, musicalising, musicalizing, oceanologies, oceanologist, plasticizing, pugnaciously, racewalkings, radicalising, reescalating, scaffoldings, scandalising, scandalizing, scarifyingly, scatteringly, secularising, secularizing, shellackings, simulcasting, spacewalking, specialising, specializing, supplicating, synergically, tracklayings, uncoalescing, ungraciously, unscrambling, vesiculating, walkingstick. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 61 6C 69 6E 67 |
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| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c a l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0061 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
| 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)53696778758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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