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Date "TEXEL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
"TEXEL" is a common misspelling or typo for: taxed, taxes, tee, telex. |
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Computing | Small texture element that corresponds to a pixel. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Texel (population: 13,733) is an island in the North Sea, belonging to the Netherlands (province of North Holland). It's the biggest and most populated of the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea and also the westernmost of this chain, which extends to Denmark.The island forms one municipality . It covers an area of 585.96 km² (of which 416.14 km² water).
Texel is known for its wildlife, particularly in winter, when birds of prey and geese take up residence.
The municipality of Texel consists of the following towns, villages and townships: Bargen, De Cocksdorp, De Koog, De Nes, De Waal, Den Burg, Den Hoorn, Dijkmanshuizen, Driehuizen, Harkebuurt, 't Horntje, Midden-Eierland, Molenbuurt, Nieuweschild, Noorderbuurt, Ongeren, Oost, Oosterend, Oudeschild, Spang, Spijkdorp, Tienhoven, Westermient, Zevenhuizen, Zuid-Eierland.
There is a ferry to Den Helder.
See also Battle of Texel.
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Texel is also a computer graphics term, the abbreviation of texture mapping pixel.
Textures are composed of texels, that will be combined in various ways into a graphics card before being shown on the screen.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Texel."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TEXEL | English | TEXture ELement | Computer - Computer - (RFC 1824) |
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| "Sheep" by Marlon Bruin Commentary: "Texel sheep." |
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| "TEXEL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "TEXEL" is used about 12 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 (proper) | 75% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (singular) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
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Beginning with "TEXEL": Texel-ijsselmeer, texel-sired. | |
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| 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. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: telex. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-t-x" | |
-1 letter: leet, teel, tele. | |
-2 letters: eel, lee, let, lex, tee, tel. | |
-3 letters: el, et, ex. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-t-x" | |
+2 letters: exalted, exalter, exulted, latexes, sextile, telexed, telexes, textile, ulexite. | |
+3 letters: axletree, exalters, excretal, exhalent, exitless, expertly, external, extolled, extoller, flextime, sextiles, sextuple, teletext, telexing, textiles, textless, ulexites. | |
+4 letters: axletrees, catalexes, exactable, exaltedly, excellent, excitable, excitedly, exculpate, exfoliate, exhalents, exigently, explanted, expletive, expletory, explicate, exploited, exploiter, exsertile, extensile, externals, extollers, extolment, extremely, exultance, flexitime, flextimes, metaxylem, metroplex, retroflex, sextupled, sextuples, sextuplet, teletexts, telotaxes, triplexes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 45 58 45 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . -..- . .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000101 01011000 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T E X E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0045 0058 0045 004C |
| 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)5439583946 |
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