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| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | The amount of insulation which will maintain normal skin temperature of the human body when heat production is 50 kilogram-calorie per meter squared per hour, air temperature is 70° F, and the air is still.One clo is roughly equivalent to the amount of insulation provided by the average businessman's suit in a temperature climate. (references) |
Census | Designation for the (Customer Liaison Office), Bureau of the Census. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "CLO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1885. (references) |
"CLO" is a common misspelling or typo for: clod, clog, clop, clot, cloy, co, cola, cold, colt, coo. |
Crosswords: CLO |
| Non-English Usage: "CLO" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (customs, duty, levy, tariff, tax), Welsh (conclusion, lock). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CLO | English | Cali | N/A |
CLO | Italian | Ufficio centrale di collegamento Ufficio nazionale di una vasta rete comunitaria finalizzata alla lotta all'evasione nel campo della fiscalità diretta. | Abbreviation |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Carrie Kayler, Belle Kayler, and Clo Barnes, December 31, 1900. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CLO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 52.17% of the time. "CLO" is used about 69 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) | 52.17% | 36 | 57,479 |
| Noun (singular) | 27.54% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Unclassified Items | 20.29% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CLO": clo-test. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
clo | 87 |
clo pittsburgh | 64 |
clo test | 8 |
nu clo | 4 |
clo clo | 3 |
clo magazine | 2 |
clo igl.net | 2 |
clo ozone | 2 |
child clo distributor first quality wholesale | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "CLO": cloaca, cloacae, cloacal, cloacas, cloak, cloaked, cloaking, cloakroom, cloakrooms, cloaks, clobber, clobbered, clobbering, clobbers, clochard, clochards, cloche, cloches, clock, clocked, clocker, clockers, clocking, clocklike, clocks, clockwise, clockwork, clockworks, clod, cloddier, cloddiest, cloddish, cloddishness, cloddishnesses, cloddy, clodhopper, clodhoppers, clodhopping, clodpate, clodpates, clodpole, clodpoles, clodpoll, clodpolls, clods, clofibrate, clofibrates, clog, clogged, clogger, cloggers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "CLO": cyclo. (additional references) | |
Words containing "CLO": acyclovir, acyclovirs, anticlockwise, anticlotting, anticyclone, anticyclones, anticyclonic, antiforeclosure, backcloth, backcloths, becloak, becloaked, becloaking, becloaks, beclog, beclogged, beclogging, beclogs, beclothe, beclothed, beclothes, beclothing, becloud, beclouded, beclouding, beclouds, beclown, beclowned, beclowning, beclowns, bedclothes, breechcloth, breechcloths, breechclout, breechclouts, broadcloth, broadcloths, cerecloth, cerecloths, cheesecloth, cheesecloths, counterclockwise, cycloaddition, cycloadditions, cycloaliphatic, cyclodextrin, cyclodextrins, cyclodiene, cyclodienes, cyclogeneses, cyclogenesis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: col. | |
| Words within the letters "c-l-o" | |
-1 letter: lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-l-o" | |
+1 letter: bloc, calo, clod, clog, clon, clop, clot, cloy, coal, coil, cola, cold, cole, cols, colt, coly, cool, cowl, floc, loca, loch, loci, lock, loco. | |
+2 letters: acold, block, blocs, calos, carol, cello, celom, ceorl, cholo, cibol, claro, cloak, clock, clods, clogs, clomb, clomp, clone, clonk, clons, cloot, clops, close, cloth, clots, cloud, clour, clout, clove, clown, cloys, cloze, coala, coals, coaly, coble, coils, colas, colds, coled, coles, colic, colin, colly, colog, colon, color, colts, colza, comal, cools, cooly, copal, coral, could, cowls, coxal, coyly, cyclo, cymol, dolce, dolci, flock, flocs, focal, loach, local, lochs, locks, locos, locum, locus, logic, lotic, nicol, octal, octyl, oculi, oleic, scold, scowl, socle, vocal, wilco. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4C 4F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. --- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001100 01001111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C L O |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004C 004F |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374649 |
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