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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | (German, streaks, striae). 1. Regions of different density in a fluid, especially as shown by special apparatus. 2. Pertaining to a method or apparatus for visualizing or photographing regions of varying density in a field of flow. See schlieren photography, scintillation.Used in compounds, such as schlieren lens, schlieren method, schlieren photograph, etc. (references) |
Mining | A. Tabular bodies, generally a few inches to tens of feet long, that occur in plutonic rocks. They have the same general mineralogy as the rocks, but because of differences in mineral ratios, they are darker or lighter; the boundaries with the plutonic rock tend to be transitional. Some schlieren are modified inclusions, others may be segregations of minerals. Etymol: German. Sing: schliere. Also spelled schliere. Adj: schlieric. CF:flow layer b. Regions of different density in fluid, esp. as shown by special apparatus c. A method or apparatus for visualizing or photographing regions ofvarying density in a field of flow. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SCHLIEREN |
| Specialty definitions using "SCHLIEREN": nebulite ♦ schlieren method, scintillometer. (references) |
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 | Interior View of Schlieren Setup. Credit: NASA. |  | Detailed View of Schlieren Setup. Credit: NASA. |
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| "SCHLIEREN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SCHLIEREN" is used about 4 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% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SCHLIEREN": schlieren photography. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SCHLIEREN": topler-schlieren. | |
| 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 |
schlieren | 24 |
photography schlieren | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SCHLIEREN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | slire fotografi (schlieren photography, shadow photography), schlieren-mikroskopi (schlieren microscopy), plet (blot, spot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schlierentechniek (schlieren photography, shadow photography), schlierenpatroon (schlieren pattern, streak). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Schlieren-kuvaus (schlieren photography, shadow photography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | strioscopie (schlieren photography), lignes de séparation de l'émail (schlieren pattern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Schlieren-Verfahren (schlieren photography, shadow photography), Schlierenmikroskopie (schlieren microscopy), Schlieren (alligator skin, cold lap, come home, cords, crocodile skin, orange peel, ream, schlieren pattern, streak, streaks, striae, strings, surface folding, threads, waviness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | γραμμή διαχωρισμού επαλλήλων εφυαλωμάτων (schlieren pattern, streak), φωτογράφηση διά της μεθόδου Schlieren (schlieren photography, shadow photography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | linea di separazione fra due smalti sovrapposti (schlieren pattern, streak), fotografia Schlieren (schlieren photography, shadow photography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ierenschlay linha de separação de vidrados sobrepostos (schlieren pattern, streak), estrioscopia (schlieren photography, shadow photography). (various references) linea de separacion entre dos esmaltes sobrepuestos (schlieren pattern, streak), fotografía Schlieren (schlieren photography, shadow photography), estrioscopia (schlieren photography, shadow photography). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: chiseler, enriches, licenser, reclines, schliere, silencer. | |
-2 letters: ceilers, crenels, elenchi, helices, henries, inheres, lechers, license, lichees, lichens, liernes, recline, relines, reshine, richens, selenic, silence, sincere. | |
-3 letters: ceiler, censer, cerise, cheers, chiels, chiles, chines, chisel, clines, creels, creesh, crenel, enisle, enrich, ensile, herein, hirsel, hirsle, inches, inhere, lecher, leches, lichee, lichen, liches, lierne, liners. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-l-n-r-s" | |
+2 letters: chandeliers, chandleries. | |
+3 letters: chanticleers, rescheduling, sepulchering, stepchildren, thermoclines. | |
+4 letters: chancelleries, chancellories, clearinghouse, dechlorinates, leprechaunish, lickerishness, prescheduling. | |
+5 letters: candlelighters, cephaloridines, charitableness, cholestyramine, cholinesterase, churchlinesses, churlishnesses, clearinghouses, comprehensible, comprehensibly, electrofishing, hypermasculine, neurochemicals, prosencephalic. | |
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