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NEPTUNIAN

Definitions: NEPTUNIAN

NEPTUNIAN

Adjective

1. Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.

2. Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.

Noun

1. Alt. of Neptunist

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NEPTUNIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)



Specialty Definitions: NEPTUNIAN

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Literature

Neptunian or ~~~Neptunist.
Neptunist. One who follows the opinion of Werner, in the belief that all the great rocks of the earth were once held in solution in water, and have been deposited as sediment. The Vulcanists or Plutonians ascribe them to the agency of fire. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: NEPTUNIAN

English words defined with "NEPTUNIAN": Neptunian races, Neptunian theory, NeptunistPlutonism. (references)
Specialty definitions using "NEPTUNIAN": descension theoryneptunian dikeSalace. (references)

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Commercial Usage: NEPTUNIAN

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Books

  • Comparative View of the Huttonian and Neptunian Systems of Geology: In Answer to the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory Earth (History of Geology) (reference)

  • The Wernerian Theory of the Neptunian Origin of Rocks: A Facsimile Reprint of Elements of Geognosy 1808 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Expressions: NEPTUNIAN

Expressions using "NEPTUNIAN": Neptunian races Neptunian theory. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: NEPTUNIAN

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

Albanian

  

oqeanik (oceanic, pelagic). (various references)

   

Czech

  

patřící neptunovi. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

neptuni. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eptuniannay

   

Portuguese

  

netuno (Neptune). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

океанический (oceanic). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neptunski. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

neptúnico, neptúneo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oceanisk (oceanic). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

neptün ile ilgili, neptün (Neptune), suyun etkisi ile oluşmuş. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

утворений водою, океанічний (oceanic), нептунів, морський (marine, maritime, nautic, nautical, naval, pelagian, pelagic, salty, water). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: NEPTUNIAN

Misspellings

"NEPTUNIAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: natufian, neptunians. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: NEPTUNIAN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n-p-t-u"

-2 letters: pennant, petunia, pinnate.

-3 letters: auntie, innate, nannie, pantie, patine, peanut, pennia, pineta, pinnae, punnet, tannin, tenpin, unpent.

-4 letters: anent, ennui, entia, inane, inapt, inept, input, paint, panne, paten, patin, penna, penni, pieta, pinna, pinta, taupe, tenia, tinea, unapt, unite, unpen, unpin, untie.

-5 letters: ante, anti, aunt, etna, etui, nape, neap, neat, nine, nipa, nite, pain, pane, pant, pate, pean, peat, pein, pent, pian, pina, pine, pint, pita, puna, punt, tain, tape, tepa, tine, tuna, tune, unai, unit.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-n-n-p-t-u"
 

+4 letters: underpainting.

 

+5 letters: pronunciamento, superannuating, superannuation, underpaintings, upstandingness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: NEPTUNIAN


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

4E 45 50 54 55 4E 49 41 4E

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)

01001110 01000101 01010000 01010100 01010101 01001110 01001001 01000001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0045 0050 0054 0055 004E 0049 0041 004E

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

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

483950545548433548

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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