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Definition: Telekinesis |
TelekinesisNoun1. A the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Medicine | The movement of a physical object through space without physical contact with the object or physical influence upon it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: TelekinesisSynonym: psychokinesis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Motion | Stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics; telekinesis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Telekinesis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Telekinesis" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
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 |
telekinesis | 877 |
learn telekinesis | 63 |
developing telekinesis | 20 |
telekinesis use | 18 |
learning telekinesis | 18 |
develop telekinesis | 17 |
real telekinesis | 7 |
telekinesis test | 7 |
technique telekinesis | 5 |
power telekinesis | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "telekinesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | telekinezi. (various references) | |
Arabic | الإرسال (sending). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | телекинеза. (various references) | |
Czech | telekineze. (various references) | |
Danish | telekinese (psychokinesia, psychokinesis). (various references) | |
French | télékinésie, télécinésie. (various references) | |
German | Teleokinese, telekinese (psychokinesia, psychokinesis). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mozgásátvitel távolba. (various references) | |
Italian | telecinesi. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | テルミット反応 (combination television and video-recorder, facsimile through television, home shopping network, tape recorder, telecast, telecine, telecommunication, teleconference, telecontrol system, teleconverter, telegenic, telegraph, telepathy, telephone club, telescan, telescope, teletex, teletext, Teletopia, teletype, teletypewriter, teletypewriter exchange, television, television camera, television continuity, television game, television network, television rating system, television set, television shopping, television talent, telex, tellurium, terebinthina, thermit reaction, trekking, TV, video game). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | テレキネシス . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elekinesistay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | telequinesia, espiritismo (spiritism, spiritualism). (various references) | |
Russian | телекинез. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | telekineza. (various references) | |
Spanish | telequinesia. (various references) | |
Turkish | telekinezi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | телекінез. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Telekinesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: telecenesis, telekenesis, telekenessis, telemines. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-i-k-l-n-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: enlistees, selenites, sleekiest, slinkiest. | |
-3 letters: enlistee, lenities, lentisks, likeness, nestlike, selenite, setlines, sienites, silkiest, sleekens, sleekest, steelies. | |
-4 letters: eeliest, enisles, enlists, ensiles, enskies, inkiest, inkless, instils, keenest, ketenes, kilties, kineses, kinesis, knesset, lentisk, liniest, lisente, listees, listens, nestles, netless, netlike, seniles, sestine, setline, sienite, silents, silkies, sklents, sleeken, sleekit, steelie, stelene, teleses, telesis, tensile, tieless, tinkles, tinlike, tinsels. | |
-5 letters: elints, elites, enisle, enlist, ensile, inkles, inlets, insets, insist, instil, islets, istles, ketene, kiltie, kneels, lenses, lessee, lessen, likens, likest, listee, listen, nestle, niseis, seines, seisin, senile, seniti, sileni, silent, silken, siskin, skeens, skeets, skeins, skenes, skites, sklent, sleeks, sleets, sliest, slinks, steeks, steels, steins, steles, stiles, stinks, tenses, tinkle, tinsel. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6C 65 6B 69 6E 65 73 69 73 |
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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)- . .-.. . -.- .. -. . ... .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101100 01100101 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e l e k i n e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006C 0065 006B 0069 006E 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
| 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)5471787177758071857585 |
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