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Terrestrially

Definitions: Terrestrially

Terrestrially

Adverb

1. In a worldly manner; "terrestrially changeable".

2. To a land environment; "terrestrially adapted".

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

Date "terrestrially" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1874. (references)

Synonym: Terrestrially

Synonym: mundanely (adv). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Terrestrially

DomainTitle

Music

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: Terrestrially

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Television and radio advertising is regulated by the Radio and TV Act. Television commercials for companies broadcasting terrestrially from Sweden are limited to blocks between programs, unless the programs are sports or musical events with breaks for the audiences. (references)

Economic History

India

Doordarshan, the government-owned television network, has the potential reach of almost 90 percent of the population terrestrially and through satellite. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Terrestrially

Language Translations for "terrestrially"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

地球地. (various references)

   

German

  

irdische, irdisch (earthen, earthly, mundane, planetary, terrestrial). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

지구 으로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

errestriallytay

   

Russian 

  

по-земному. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Terrestrially

Misspellings

"Terrestrially" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: terrestrilal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Terrestrially

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-r-r-r-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: terrestrial.

-3 letters: literately.

-4 letters: artillery, laetriles, laterites, literates, litterers, retailers, rillettes, satellite, seriately, statelier, sterilely, terrellas.

-5 letters: alertest, alterers, ariettes, arrester, arteries, artistry, ateliers, earliest, easterly, iterates, laetrile, laterite, latterly, layettes, lealties, leariest, literals, literary, literate, litterer, raillery, ralliers, rallyist, rattlers, realiser, realters, realties, rearrest, relaters, retailer, retirers, retitles, retrally, retreats, retrials, serially, starrier, startler, stellate, straiter, straitly, talliers, tarriers, tarriest, teariest, terrella, terriers, tertials, tertiary, trailers, treaters, treaties, treatise, trillers, yearlies, yeastier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Terrestrially


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

54 65 72 72 65 73 74 72 69 61 6C 6C 79

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)

01010100 01100101 01110010 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#114 &#114 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#114 &#105 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0072 0072 0065 0073 0074 0072 0069 0061 006C 006C 0079

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

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

54718484718586847567787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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