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Vulcanology

Definition: Vulcanology

Vulcanology

Noun

1. The branch of geology that studies volcanoes.

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

Note: Vulcanology \Vul`can*ol"o*gy\, noun. [See Vulcan, and -logy.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Vulcanology

Synonym: volcanology (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vulcanology

Specialty definitions using "vulcanology": physical sciences. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Vulcanology

"Vulcanology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Vulcanology" is used about 3 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%3202,518

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vulcanology

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  vulcanology

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vulcanology

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

Farsi 

  

تشفشان شناسی(volcanology). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ulcanologyvay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Vulcanology"

Words rhyming with "vulcanology" (pronounced 'Vul`can*ol"o*gy'): Aciurgy, Acology, Actinology, Adenology, Aerolithology, Aerology, Agnoiology, Agriology, Agrostology, Aitiology, Alethiology, Algology, Allotriophagy, Alogy, Amphibiology, Amphibology, Anagogy, Analogy, Anemology, Angelology, Angiology, Anthology, Anthropology, Anthropophagy, Antilogy, Apiology, Arachnology, Archaeology, Archelogy, Aretology, Aristology, Arteriology, Arthrology, Assyriology, Astrolithology, Astrology, Astrometeorology, Astrotheology, Atheology, Atmology, Atmospherology, Atomology, Autophagy, Bacteriology, Baggy, Balneology, Barology, Battology, Bibliology, Bibliopegy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vulcanology

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-g-l-l-n-o-o-u-v-y"

-4 letters: aglycon, galloon, unvocal, vocally, volcano.

-5 letters: clonal, colony, colugo, congou, convoy, coolly, cullay, gallon, glucan, glycan, glycol, lagoon, lanugo, longly, loungy, lunacy, ovally, unclog, uncool.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Vulcanology


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

56 75 6C 63 61 6E 6F 6C 6F 67 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)

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

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

01010110 01110101 01101100 01100011 01100001 01101110 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#117 &#108 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#103 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 0075 006C 0063 0061 006E 006F 006C 006F 0067 0079

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

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

5687786967808178817391

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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