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BLUE GOO

Specialty Definition: BLUE GOO

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Computing

Blue goo n. Term for `police' nanobots intended to prevent gray goo, denature hazardous waste, destroy pollution, put ozone back into the stratosphere, prevent halitosis, and promote truth, justice, and the American way, etc. The term `Blue Goo' can be found in Dr. Seuss's "Fox In Socks" to refer to a substance much like bubblegum. `Would you like to chew blue goo, sir?'. See {nanotechnology. Source: Jargon File.

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

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Crosswords: BLUE GOO

Specialty definitions using "BLUE GOO": gray goo. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BLUE GOO

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Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLUE GOO

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

blue goo

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BLUE GOO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-l-o-o-u"

-2 letters: bogle, boule, bugle, bulge, globe, obole.

-3 letters: blue, bole, bolo, glob, glue, gobo, lobe, lobo, loge, logo, lube, luge, oboe, obol, ogle, oleo.

-4 letters: beg, bel, bog, boo, bug, ego, gel, gob, goo, gul, leg, leu, lob, log, loo, lug, obe, ole.

-5 letters: be, bo, el, go, lo, oe.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-g-l-o-o-u"
 

+2 letters: doodlebug.

 

+3 letters: doodlebugs.

 

+4 letters: belowground.

 

+5 letters: neurobiology, urbanologies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLUE GOO


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

42 4C 55 45      47 4F 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00100000 01000111 01001111 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#85 &#69 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0055 0045      0047 004F 004F

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

364655392414949

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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