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Xi

Definition: Xi

Xi

Adjective

1. Being one more than ten.

Noun

1. The cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one.

2. The 14th letter of the Greek alphabet.

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

Date "xi" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)


Specialty Definition: Xi

DomainDefinition

Computing

Xi A VLSI design language. ["The Circuit Design Language Xi", S.I. Feldman, unpublished memo, Bell Labs, 1982]. [Mentioned in Computational Aspects of VLSI, J.D. Ullman, CS Press 1984]. (1995-02-03). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Specialty Definition: Xi (letter)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Xi (Ξ ξ) is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 60.

See also:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Xi (letter)."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Xi

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

Xi

DutchIrriterendEuropean Union, Chemistry

Xi

EnglishIrritantEuropean Union, Chemistry

Xi

FrenchXiEuropean Union, Chemistry

Xi

GermanReizendEuropean Union, Chemistry

Xi

GreekερεθιστικόEuropean Union, Chemistry

Xi

PortugueseIrritanteEuropean Union, Chemistry

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

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Synonym: Xi

Synonym: eleven (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Xi

English words defined with "xi": Angelotcall afterGier-eagleRound aboutTo, To cast away, To find out, To go out, To lay unto, To name, To set in order, To think good. (references)
Specialty definitions using "xi": Alfonso XIBabylonian Numbers, Baca, Bathsheba, Bias Limit, bivariate Pascal distribution, Bower-womanCallipolis, Carpe Diem, Cavalier Servant, Cimmerian Darkness, Clean and Unclean Animals, Clotharius, CuishesDiable, Dying SayingsFactor XIa, For to see, Fum the FourthGaleotti, Geneva Print, Good for Anything, Goodman of Ballengeich, GUILLOTINEHatto, Hermite, Hospitallers, HowitzersIdomeneus, Incomplete Infinitive, IndividualistsJansenists, Jesse TreeKiss given to a PoetLawsuits, Letter of Uriah, Letter-Gae, Lockhart, Lollards, Lotus-eaters, LOUIS XIMarozia, Marriage Knot, Marvedie, MouldsPartial Thromboplastin Time, Peerage of the Apostles, physiological acceleration, Plucked Pigeon, Prince's PeersRococo ArchitectureSalt on His Tail, Scornful Dogs will eat dirty Puddings, Ships, Sortes VirgilianaeTotal.UriahVirgin Mary's GuardWidow womanXenocrates. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Xi" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (xi), Portuguese (irritant), Vietnamese (stick, stuck).

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Modern Usage: Xi

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Xi du zhe (1974)

Shuang xi ling men (1970)

Cirkeline XI - Højt fra træets grønne top (1970)

Apollo XI Landing (1969)

You long xi feng (1968)

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

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Commercial Usage: Xi

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

  

High Tech

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Image Slideshow: Xi

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Xi

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The BELGICA anchored at Mount William. In: "Resultats du Voyage du S. Y. BELGICA en 1897-1898-1899 .... Rapports Scientifiques ... Travaux Hydrographiques et Instructions Nautiques" by G. Lecointe, 1903. P. 110. Plate XI. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Holocentrus ensifer Jordan & Evermann. Type. Ala-ihi. In: "The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, with a General Account of the Fish Fauna", by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. XXIII, for 1903. Part I. P. 574, Plate XI. Credit: Fisheries.

1. Malaclemmys macrospilota. 2. Malaclemmys pileata. In: "A Revision of Malaclemmys, a Genus of Turtles", by William Perry Hay. P. 20, Plate XI. Credit: Fisheries.

Figures 1-10, Mycedium fragile Dana. Figures 11-13, Agaricia agaricites Milne-Edw. and Haime. Siderastraea galaxea Milne-Edw. and Haime. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XI. These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Text accompanying Plate XI. In: "Report on the Florida Reefs", 1880, by Louis Agassiz. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, Vol. VII, No. 1. Plate XI. NOAA Central Library Call No. QE565.A263 1880 These plates help document the oldest studies of the Florida Reefs. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

The upper laboratory on the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate IV, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The chart-room on the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate V, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The table sieve and cradle sieve, hopper and tray exposed. In: "Report on the Construction and Work in 1880 of United States Fish Commission Steamer FISH-HAWK", by Lieutenant Zera Luther Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IX. Report of the Commissioner for 1881. Plate XI, p. 53. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The ALBATROSS dredging. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate I, p. 111. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

"The cabin." This was the captain's quarters. The individual sitting is Zera Luther Tanner, first commanding officer of the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS" , by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate III. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Xi

AuthorQuotation

Pope Pius XI

When there is question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.
Free competition, ... though within certain limits just and productive of good results, cannot be the ruling principle of the economic world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Xi

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The provisions of this Article do not, however, apply to the territories of East Prussia and the Free City of Danzig, as defined in Article 28 of Part II (Boundaries of Germany) and in Article 10o of Section XI (Danzig) of this Part. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Xi

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

He was the stupendous architect of a downfall, the successor of Charlemagne, of Louis XI.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Xi

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

FFP is efficacious for treatment of deficiencies of factors II, V, VII, IX, X, and XI when specific component therapy is neither available nor appropriate. (references)

Economic History

India

Opportunities also exists for relaxin, rennin, clot-dissolving agents, insulin, interferons, interleukins and anticancer therapeutics, human growth hormones, erythropoietin, blood factors VIII & XI, urokinase, tissue plasminogen activator, streptokinase tissue necrosis factor. (references)

Human Rights

Guatemala

Nor was there progress in the disappearance cases of Arnoldo Xi, an indigenous- and peasant-rights activist who reportedly was shot and abducted in 1995; Lorenzo Quiej Pu, a human rights activist who disappeared in 1994; and Juan Jose Cabrera ("Mincho"), the guerrilla commander reportedly captured by the EMP in 1996 while taking part in a kidnaping. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason. In his great work on Divergent Lines of Racial Evolution, the learned Professor Brayfugle argues from the prevalence of this gesture -- the shrug -- among Frenchmen, that they are descended from turtles and it is simply a survival of the habit of retracing the head inside the shell. It is with reluctance that I differ with so eminent an authority, but in my judgment (as more elaborately set forth and enforced in my work entitled Hereditary Emotions -- lib. II, c. XI) the shrug is a poor foundation upon which to build so important a theory, for previously to the Revolution the gesture was unknown. I have not a doubt that it is directly referable to the terror inspired by the guillotine during the period of that instrument's activity.

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Usage Frequency: Xi

"Xi" is generally used as a cardinal number -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Xi" is used about 400 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
Cardinal Number100%40013,972

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

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Expressions: Xi

Expressions using "xi": Factor XI Factor XI Deficiency Louis XI Pius XI. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "xi": Xi-nu.

Ending with "xi": vi-xi, x-xi.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Xi

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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1,807

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20

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252

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19

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127

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18

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116

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17

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92

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17

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63

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17

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61

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17

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60

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17

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58

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17

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52

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16

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43

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14

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42

fantasy final trailer xi

13

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40

center education region service xi

12

star trek xi

33

jordan low xi

12

theta xi

33

fantasy final pic xi

12

region xi

32

fantasy final screenshots xi

12

sigma xi

31

title xi

12

air jordan retro xi

26

pius xi high school

11

nu theta xi

24

fantasy final movie xi

11

date fantasy final release xi

23

ji xi

10
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Modern Translation: Xi

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

Danish

  

plasma tromboplastin antecedent (factor XI), koagulationsfaktor XI (factor XI). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

xi (irritant). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hyytymistekijä XI (factor XI). (various references)

   

French

  

facteur XI (factor XI), facteur Rosenthal (factor XI). (various references)

   

German

  

Rosenthal-Faktor (factor XI). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παράγοντας X1 (factor XI), παράγοντας Rosenthal (factor XI). (various references)

   

Italian

  

undici (eleven). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ixay

   

Spanish

  

factor XI (factor XI). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: Xi

LanguageDateSourceGenesis Chapter 10, Verse 15
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintCanaan de egennhsen ton sidwna prwtotokon kai ton cettaion
Latin405VulgateChanaan autem genuit Sidonem primogenitum suum Ettheum
Old English990West SaxonCanaan, Cames sunu, gestrynde xi suna, [omitted: Sidonem his frumcennedan sunu, ond Hethæum,
Middle English1395WyclifChanaan forsothe gat Sydonem, his first gotun,
Renaissance English1526TyndaleCanaan also begat zidon his eldest sonne and Heth
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Canaan begat Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
Basic English1964OgdenAnd Canaan was the father of Zidon, who was his oldest son, and Heth,

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Matched Bible Translations: Xi

LanguageGenesis Chapter 10, Verse 15
CebuanoUg si Canaan nag-anak kang Sidon nga iyang panganay, ug kang Heth,
Chinese迦 南 " 長 子 西 " 、 又 " 赫 、
CroatianOd Kanaana potjeèe Sidon, njegov prvenac, i Het.
DanishKana'an avlede Zidon, hans førstefødte, Het,
DutchEn Kanaan gewon Sidon, zijn eerstgeborene, en Heth,
FinnishJa Kanaanille syntyivät Siidon, hänen esikoisensa, ja Heet,
FrenchCanaan engendra Sidon, son premier-né, et Heth;
GermanKanaan aber zeugte Sidon, seinen ersten Sohn, und Heth,
Haitian Creole¶ Premye pitit Kanaran se te Sidon. Apre sa vin Et.
HungarianKanaán pedig nemzé Czídont, az õ elsõszülöttét, és Khétet.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariAnak-anak Kanaan, ialah Sidon, yang sulung, dan Het.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaMaka Kanaan beranaklah akan Sidon, yaitu anaknya yang sulung, dan akan Het.
Maori¶ A whanau ake ta Kanaana ko Hairona, ko tana matamua, raua ko Hete,
NorwegianOg Kana'an blev far til Sidon, som var hans førstefødte, og til Het
PortugueseCanaã gerou a Sidom, seu primogênito, e Hete,   
RumanianCanaan a nqscut pe Sidon, kntkiul lui nqscut, wi pe Het;
RussianпФ иБОББОБ ТП"ЙМЙУШ: уЙ"ПО, ЕТЧЕОЕ" ЕЗП, иЕФ,
SwedishOch Kanaan födde Sidon, som var hans förstfödde, och Het,

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Derivations: Xi

Derivations

Words beginning with "xi": xiphisterna, xiphisternum, xiphoid, xiphoids, xis. (additional references)

Words ending with "xi": amphioxi, maxi, taxi. (additional references)

Words containing "xi": abaxial, abaxile, adaxial, admixing, affixial, affixing, aflatoxin, aflatoxins, alexia, alexias, alexin, alexine, alexines, alexins, alkoxide, alkoxides, amoxicillin, amoxicillins, amphimixis, anaphylaxis, anatoxin, anatoxins, annexing, anorexia, anorexias, anorexic, anorexics, anorexies, anorexigenic, anoxia, anoxias, anoxic, antianxiety, antiauxin, antiauxins, antioxidant, antioxidants, antisexist, antisexists, antitoxic, antitoxin, antitoxins, anxieties, anxiety, anxiolytic, anxiolytics, anxious, anxiously, anxiousness, anxiousnesses, apomixis. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Xi"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "xi" (pronounced shē")
2sh ē"banshee, she.

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Anagrams: Xi

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "i-x"
 

+1 letter: fix, mix, nix, pix, six, xis.

 

+2 letters: axil, axis, exit, fixt, ibex, ilex, ixia, jinx, maxi, minx, mixt, nixe, nixy, oxid, oxim, pixy, taxi.

 

+3 letters: admix, affix, auxin, axial, axile, axils, axing, axiom, axion, axite, bemix, calix, cimex, comix, cylix, dexie, dixit, doxie, exile, exine, exist, exits, fixed, fixer, fixes, fixit, helix, immix, index, infix, ixias, ixora, ixtle, kylix, lexis, maxim, maxis, mirex, mixed, mixer, mixes, mixup, moxie, nixed, nixes, nixie, oxide, oxids, oxime, oxims, oxlip, pixel, pixes, pixie, pyxie, pyxis, radix, refix, remix, silex, sixes, sixmo, sixte, sixth, sixty, taxis, toxic, toxin, twixt, unfix, unmix, varix, vexil, vixen, xenia, xenic, xeric, xysti.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Bible Trace
17. Abbreviations
18. Acronyms
19. Derivations
20. Rhymes
21. Anagrams
22. Bibliography


  

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