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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Dirty power n. Electrical mains voltage that is unfriendly to the delicate innards of computers. Spikes, drop-outs, average voltage significantly higher or lower than nominal, or just plain noise can all cause problems of varying subtlety and severity (these are collectively known as power hits). Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
dirty power | 23 |
dirty power sprites | 4 |
debutantes dirty power | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-o-p-r-r-t-w-y" | |
-2 letters: worrited. | |
-3 letters: diopter, dioptre, peridot, pierrot, powdery, preriot, proteid, rowdier, tripody, wordier, worried. | |
-4 letters: deport, dopier, dorper, dotier, dowery, editor, period, podite, poetry, ported, porter, powder, powter, pretor, priory, protei, prower, pyrite, redipt, redtop, report, reword, rioted, rioter, ropery, ropier, torpid, torrid, towery, trepid, triode, tripod, trowed, typier, weirdo, weirdy, worrit, writer, yirred. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 52 54 59 50 4F 57 45 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010010 01010100 01011001 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010111 01000101 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I R T Y   P O W E R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0052 0054 0059 0050 004F 0057 0045 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384352545925049573952 |
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