GETTERER

  

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GETTERER

Specialty Definition: GETTERER

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Occupations

Tends machine that sprays or dips tungsten wires with chemical (getter) used to burn off residual air and moisture in electric light bulbs: Fills receptacle of machine with getter. Starts machine that sprays or dips getter onto tungsten filaments. Observes application of getter to ensure uniformity and to prevent distortion. May weigh specified quantity of filaments and calculate number, using slide rule and known weight of single unit. May place tray with coated filaments in oven to dry. (references)
 Applies getter (chemical solution) to stems of lead wires used in making incandescent lamps: Picks stem from tray and applies getter on lead wires, using brush. Places stem in tray to dry. Adds thinners to getter and stirs mixture to maintain specified consistency. (references)

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

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Anagrams: GETTERER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-r-r-t-t"

-1 letter: greeter, regreet.

-2 letters: getter, regret, teeter, terete, terret.

-3 letters: egret, greet.

-4 letters: eger, gree, rete, tree, tret.

-5 letters: ere, erg, err, gee, get, ree, reg, ret, tee, teg, tet.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-g-r-r-t-t"
 

+1 letter: regretted, regretter.

 

+2 letters: regretters, retargeted.

 

+3 letters: regrettable, reintegrate, relettering, theatergoer.

 

+4 letters: greathearted, interrogatee, redintegrate, reintegrated, reintegrates, restrengthen, strengthener, tergiversate, theatergoers.

 

+5 letters: interrogatees, redintegrated, redintegrates, reintegrative, restrengthens, strengtheners, tergiversated, tergiversates.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GETTERER


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

47 45 54 54 45 52 45 52

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)

--.    .    -    -    .    .-.    .    .-.

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

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

01000111 01000101 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#69 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0045 0054 0054 0045 0052 0045 0052

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

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

4139545439523952

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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