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Definition: Upsilon |
UpsilonNoun1. The 20th letter of the Greek alphabet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Upsilon |
| Specialty definitions using "upsilon": Letter of Pythagoras. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Upsilon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (upsilon). |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Upsilon (Υ υ) is the 20th letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 400.
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Upsilon (letter)."
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 | Amherst, Mass., Psi Upsilon Frat. House, Amherst Col. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Psi Upsilon Fraternity, U[niversity] of Pa., Philadelphia, Pa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Upsilon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Upsilon" 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) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
delta upsilon | 33 | phi lambda upsilon | 4 |
mu sigma upsilon | 18 | upsilon acrux | 3 |
upsilon | 17 | epsilon pi upsilon | 3 |
sigma lambda upsilon | 15 | gamma theta upsilon | 3 |
lambda upsilon lambda | 12 | lambda pi upsilon | 3 |
psi upsilon | 9 | omega phi upsilon | 2 |
chi upsilon sigma | 5 | lambda alpha upsilon | 2 |
phi sigma upsilon | 5 | sigma upsilon | 2 |
alpha mu phi phi upsilon | 4 | delta kappa upsilon | 2 |
delta upsilon fraternity | 4 | delta phi upsilon | 2 |
2000 upsilon | 4 | upsilon zeta | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "upsilon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ypsilon, Y. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ypsilon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ύψιλο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | igrèk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ilonupsay Y. (various references) эпсилон (epsilon). (various references) yunan alfabesinde 'u' harfi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "upsilon": upsilons. (additional references) | |
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"Upsilon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psilo, pusillus, Rushillon, Upsala, upsilow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "upsilon" (pronounced 'Up"si*lon'): Abutilon, Aquilon, Bellon, Billon, Bouillon, Bullon, Carillon, Cephalon, Chalon, Coilon, Confalon, Decathlon, Erythroxylon, Haematoxylon, Mamelon, Merlon, mesencephalon, Mesocephalon, mesocolon, metencephalon, Moellon, Monoxylon, Mouflon, Muflon, Myelencephalon, Myelon, Myroxylon, Orillon, Paillon, Phylon, Pilon, Postencephalon, Propylon, Prosencephalon, rhinencephalon, semicolon, shallon, Sideroxylon, Sillon, solon, Stallon, stolon, Vellon. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pulsion. | |
| Words within the letters "i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: insoul, lupins, pilous, poilus. | |
-2 letters: linos, lions, loins, louis, loups, lupin, noils, opsin, pilus, pions, pious, poilu, polis, pulis, spoil. | |
-3 letters: ions, lino, lins, lion, lips, lisp, loin, lops, loup, nils, nips, noil, nous, oils, onus, opus, pins, pion, piso, plus, pois, pols, pons, puli, puls, puns, silo, slip, slop, snip, soil, soli. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-l-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: pulsions, purloins, unspoilt, upsilons. | |
+2 letters: couplings, expulsion, impulsion, poloniums, prelusion, prolusion, pulsation, repulsion, spinulose, unspoiled. | |
+3 letters: aneuploids, bluepoints, compulsion, consulship, expulsions, impulsions, nonplusing, opulencies, paulownias, pleustonic, plutoniums, pollutions, preclusion, prelusions, proinsulin, prolusions, propulsion, pulsations, punctilios, purloiners, repulsions, suppletion, unpolished. | |
+4 letters: compulsions, consulships, copulations, leukopenias, liposuction, multipiston, neutrophils, nonplussing, nulliparous, outsleeping, outspelling, peculations, penuriously, poisonously, polemoniums, populations, postnuptial, postulating, postulation, preclusions, proinsulins, propulsions, punctilious, pustulation, speculation, spiculation, sporulating, sporulation, stipulation, suppletions. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 70 73 69 6C 6F 6E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- .--. ... .. .-.. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01110000 01110011 01101001 01101100 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U p s i l o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 0070 0073 0069 006C 006F 006E |
| 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)55828575788180 |
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