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Symbolisation

Definition: Symbolisation

Symbolisation

Noun

1. The use of symbols to convey meaning.

2. Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; "the eagle is a symbol of the United States".

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

Date "symbolisation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1660. (references)


Specialty Definition: Symbolisation

DomainDefinition

Information

Representation of a descriptor by a sign or symbol. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Synonyms: Symbolisation

Synonyms: symbol (n), symbolic representation (n), symbolization (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Symbolisation

Etymologies containing "symbolisation": symbolization. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Symbolisation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (symbolization).

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Usage Frequency: Symbolisation

"Symbolisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Symbolisation" is used about 5 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: Symbolisation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-s-s-t-y"

-3 letters: abolitions, isolations.

-4 letters: abolition, albinisms, ambitions, animosity, binomials, boltonias, inositols, isolation, libations, lobations, moonsails, myoblasts, myotonias, oblations, sibilants, solations, symbionts, symbolist.

-5 letters: albinism, ambition, amitosis, amotions, animists, antiboss, bastions, binomial, biolysis, blossomy, boltonia, inositol, lanosity, liaisons, libation, lobation, malisons, minilabs, mobility, moonsail, motional, myoblast, myositis, myosotis, myotonia, nobility, oblation, omission, salinity, sibilant, simonist.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-s-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: symbolizations.

 

+4 letters: monosyllabicities.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Symbolisation


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

53 79 6D 62 6F 6C 69 73 61 74 69 6F 6E

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.--.    --    -...    ---    .-..    ..    ...    .-    -    ..    ---    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01111001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#121 &#109 &#98 &#111 &#108 &#105 &#115 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0079 006D 0062 006F 006C 0069 0073 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

53917968817875856786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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