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SKETCHPAD

Specialty Definition: SKETCHPAD

DomainDefinition

Computing

Sketchpad A program that allowed users to draw on a screen with a light pen. It supported constraints (e.g. drawing a constrained ellipse produced a circle). It also had some computer aided design features (e.g. computing loads on beams). Sketchpad was the subject of Ivan E. Sutherland's 1963 MIT PhD thesis, which opened the field of computer graphics. It was the progenitor of computer drawing packages like MacDraw or Adobe Illustrator. There is a film of Sketchpad in action. It solved constraints using value inference and introduced the "ring" list structure. ["Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System", I.e. Sutherland, MIT Lincoln Lab, TR 296 (Jan 1963)]. [Sammet 1969, p. 678]. (1995-02-14). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Sketchpad

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Sketchpad was a revolutionary program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 that helped change the way people interact with computers. Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer aided drafting (*)(CAD) programs as well as an important influence that led to the development of the graphical user interface. Sketchpad used an x-y point plotter display as well as the recently invented light pen. Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 computer at MIT.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sketchpad."

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Crosswords: SKETCHPAD

Specialty definitions using "SKETCHPAD": Class Oriented Ring Associated Language ♦ Ivan Sutherland. (references)

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Commercial Usage: SKETCHPAD

DomainTitle

Books

  • An Introduction to Geometer's Sketchpad (reference)

  • Exploring Trigonometry With the Geometer's Sketchpad (reference)

  • Geometry in Action: A Discovery Approach Using the Geometer's Sketchpad (reference)

  • Rethinking Proof With the Geometer's Sketchpad (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Usage Frequency: SKETCHPAD

"SKETCHPAD" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SKETCHPAD" is used about 7 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SKETCHPAD

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the geometers sketchpad

111

sketchpad

32

geometry sketchpad

13

geometer sketchpad

9

download geometers sketchpad

4

4 sketchpad

3

download free geometers sketchpad

3

geometers lesson sketchpad

2

mikes sketchpad

2

download geometer sketchpad

2
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Modern Translation: SKETCHPAD

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

Chinese 

  

草图. (various references)

   

Italian

  

album per schizzi (sketchbook). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

스케치북. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

etchpadskay

   

Spanish

  

bloc de dibujo (sketchbook). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skissblock. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สมุ"หรือกระ"าษที่ใช้ทำโครงร่าง (sketchbook). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

записна книжка (notebook, pocketbook, sketch book), етюдник (sketch book), альбом для замальовок (sketch book). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: SKETCHPAD

Misspellings

"SKETCHPAD" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scotchgard. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: SKETCHPAD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-h-k-p-s-t"

-1 letter: despatch.

-2 letters: hepcats, heptads, packets, patched, patches, scathed, spathed, stacked, thacked.

-3 letters: adepts, aspect, cadets, cashed, casked, casket, chapes, chased, chaste, cheaps, cheats, deaths, depths, detach, epacts, haceks, hacked, hasped, hasted, hepcat, heptad, khedas, packed, packet, pashed, pasted, phased, sachet, sacked, scaped, scathe, shaped, skated, sketch, spaced, spathe, staked, taches, tacked, tasked, thacks.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-h-k-p-s-t"
 

+2 letters: packthreads.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet 		5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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