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Definition: Seism |
SeismNoun1. Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane of from volcanic activity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: SeismSynonyms: earthquake (n), quake (n), temblor (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Seism |
| Non-English Usage: "Seism" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (earthquake, seism). |
| 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 |
seism | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "seism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërmet (earthquake, quake, temblor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | jordskælv (earthquake, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aardbeving (earthquake, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | maanjäristys (earth tremor, earthquake, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | séisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Erdbeben (earthquake, earthquakes, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σεισμός (earthquake, quake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | földrengés (earthquake, temblor), földlökés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sisma (earthquake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 지진 (earthquake, seismic, seismical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | seismey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eismsay sismo (earthquake, quake, shock). (various references) seism (earthquake). (various references) землетрясение (convulsion of nature, earthquake, quake, temblor). (various references) seísmo (earthquake, quake, shock). (various references) skalv (earthquake, quake), jordskalv (earthquake, quake, tremor), jordbävning (earth tremor, earthquake, earth-quake, quake). (various references) แผ่น"ินไหว (earthquake). (various references) sismik (seism-, seismic), depremle ilgili (seism-, seismic). (various references) землетрус (earthquake, quake). (various references) động đất, địa chấn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seism": seismal, seismic, seismically, seismicities, seismicity, seismism, seismisms, seismogram, seismograms, seismograph, seismographer, seismographers, seismographic, seismographies, seismographs, seismography, seismological, seismologies, seismologist, seismologists, seismology, seismometer, seismometers, seismometric, seismometries, seismometry, seisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "seism": microseism. (additional references) | |
Words containing "seism": microseismic, microseismicities, microseismicity, microseisms. (additional references) | |
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"Seism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eisma, Esis, meism, reism, sajism, scism, Seeisa, Seim, Seis, seish, seismo, seisms, seist, Seium, seiz, sekism, Semsi, Sesia, sesit, Sesm, Seym, seyum, Shiism, sism, teism, Zosimo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: mises, semis. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-s-s" | |
-1 letter: isms, mess, mise, miss, seis, semi, sims. | |
-2 letters: ems, ess, ism, mis, sei, sim, sis. | |
-3 letters: em, es, is, me, mi, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-s-s" | |
+1 letter: deisms, dismes, emesis, mioses, misers, missed, missel, misses, misset, misuse, remiss, seisms, sexism, slimes, smiles, smites, stimes, tmesis. | |
+2 letters: ageisms, aimless, bemists, camises, cesiums, demises, desmids, dimness, egoisms, eonisms, impasse, imposes, impress, inseams, isomers, kirmess, kismets, lissome, mashies, massier, massive, mavises, meioses, meiosis, merises, merisis, messiah, messier, messily, messing, metisse, mimeses, mimesis, minuses, miscues, misdoes, misease, miseats, mislies, mispens, misseat, missels, missend, missent, missets, missies, missile, missive, misstep, misters, misused, misuser, misuses, mitises, mitoses, mossier, mueslis, muskies, mussier, myiases, nemesis, premiss, remises, rimless, samiels, samisen, samites, seismal, seismic, semises, sexisms, siamese, siemens, similes, simmers, simnels, simpers, simples, smidges, smilers, smileys, smiters, somites, spirems, stimies, stymies, surmise, swamies, tamises, theisms, tsimmes, verisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0069 0073 006D |
| 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)5371758579 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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