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PREPONDERANCY

Definition: PREPONDERANCY

PREPONDERANCY

Noun

1. The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

2. The quality or state of being preponderant; superiority or excess of weight, influence, or power, etc.; an outweighing.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "PREPONDERANCY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

Anagrams: PREPONDERANCY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-n-n-o-p-p-r-r-y"
	-3 letters: copyreader, ropedancer.
	-4 letters: noncareer, nonreader.
	-5 letters: aerodyne, cayenned, coppered, copyread, cornered, crayoned, dapperer, deaconry, decenary, endocarp, endpaper, ordnance, panderer, parcener, pardoner, penanced, pendency, ponderer, prepared, rancored, recapped.
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.

Alternative Orthography: PREPONDERANCY

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

50 52 45 50 4F 4E 44 45 52 41 4E 43 59

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)

01010000 01010010 01000101 01010000 01001111 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000011 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#69 &#80 &#79 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0045 0050 004F 004E 0044 0045 0052 0041 004E 0043 0059

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

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

50523950494838395235483759

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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