BENHAM

Domain	Definition
Health	A disk, half black and half white, with a number of concentric black arcs on the white sector, which, when rotated, elicits a variety of chromatic color sensations. (references)
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Domain	Title
Books	The Benham Book of Palmistry: A Practical Treatise on the Laws of Scientific Hand Reading (Newcastle Metaphysical Classic) (reference) Two Connecticut Composers: The Collected Works of Asahel Benham and Merit Woodruff (Music of the New American Nation, 8) (reference) Women Explorers of the Mountains: Nina Mazuchelli, Fanny Bullock Workman, Mary Vaux Walcott, Gertrude Benham, Junko Tabei (Capstone Short biographies (reference) (more book examples)
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	Survivors of USS Hammann (DD-412) are brought ashore at Pearl Harbor from USS Benham (DD-397), a few days after their ship was sunk on 6 June 1942. Note Navy ambulance in left foreground, many onlookers, depth charge racks on Benham's stern and open sights on her after 5"/38 gun mount. Credit: NAVY.		At anchor in the Hudson River, off New York City, during a naval review in 1939. USS Benham (DD-397) is in the left center distance. Credit: NAVY.
	USS Benham (DD-397), with 720 survivors of USS Yorktown on board, closes USS Portland (CA-33) at about 1900 hrs, 4 June 1942. A report of unidentified aircraft caused Benham to break away before transferring any of the survivors to the cruiser and they remained on board her until the following morning. Note Benham's oil-stained sides. The abandoned Yorktown is in the right distance. Credit: NAVY.		FSA (Farm Security Administration) clients Mr. and Mrs. Burton Benham getting apples ready for market. Hamden, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress.
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"BENHAM" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BENHAM" is used about 11 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	11	106,044

The following table summarizes the usage of "BENHAM" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Benham	Last name	2,000	5,377
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

1. Benham, KY (city, FIPS 5662)
Location: 36.96464 N, 82.95194 W
Population (1990): 717 (312 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 40807
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BENHAM

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
benham	36
atkins benham	13
benham kentucky	9
benham trinidad	8
benham group	6
benham flip	4
benham falls	3
benham reeve	3
benham corp trinidad	3
benham dorothy	2
benham gallery	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BENHAM

Language		Translations for "BENHAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Benham's skive (Benham disk, Benham's disk, Benham's top). (various references)

French		disque de Benham (Benham disk, Benham's disk, Benham's top). (various references)

German		Benham Scheibe (Benham disk, Benham's disk, Benham's top). (various references)

Greek		δίσκος του BENHAM (Benham disk, Benham's disk, Benham's top). (various references)

Pig Latin		enhambay

Portuguese		disco de Benham (Benham disk, Benham's disk, Benham's top). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BENHAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-h-m-n"
	-2 letters: ahem, amen, bane, beam, bean, bema, haem, haen, hame, mabe, mane, mean, nabe, name, nema.
	-3 letters: ane, bah, bam, ban, ben, hae, ham, hem, hen, mae, man, men, nab, nae, nah, nam, neb.
	-4 letters: ab, ae, ah, am, an, ba, be, eh, em, en, ha, he, hm, ma, me, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-h-m-n"
	+1 letter: hambone.
	+2 letters: bohemian, hamboned, hambones, hornbeam.
	+3 letters: abashment, benchmark, beshaming, bohemians, hornbeams.
	+4 letters: abashments, ambushment, banishment, becharming, benchmarks, chambering, habiliment, husbandmen, machinable.
	+5 letters: abolishment, ambushments, amphisbaena, antechamber, banishments, benchwarmer, blaspheming, bohemianism, chamberlain, habiliments, machineable, misbehaving, thromboxane, unmatchable.
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