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BPA

"BPA" is a common misspelling or typo for: bad, bag, bah, ban, bar, bat, bay, boa, bra, spa.


Specialty Definition: BPA

DomainDefinition

Energy

One of five federal power marketing administrationsthat sell low-cost electric power produced by federal hydro electricdams to agricultural and municipal users. BPA serves Idaho, Oregon, andWashington as well as parts of Nevada and Wyoming. It also sells powerto California companies in "wheeling" trades.Short for Bonneville PowerAdministration. (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BPA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

BPA

EnglishBonneville Power AdministrationN/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BPA

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

bpa

84

bpa international

18

bank bpa

10

baseball bpa

10

bpa series world

8

bpa staffing.opm.gov

4

bpa login

3

415a blaupunkt bpa

3

audit bpa

2

bpa job

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BPA

Derivations

Words containing "BPA": subpanel, subpanels, subpar, subparagraph, subparagraphs, subparallel, subpart, subparts. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BPA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bap.

Words within the letters "a-b-p"

-1 letter: ab, ba, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-p"
 

+1 letter: baps.

 

+2 letters: abamp, becap, pibal.

 

+3 letters: abamps, abrupt, aplomb, backup, barhop, becaps, bedpan, beleap, bewrap, bipack, burlap, bypass, bypast, bypath, byplay, hubcap, mobcap, pablum, phobia, pibals, prefab, subpar, upbear, upbeat.

 

+4 letters: aplombs, backups, bagpipe, baptise, baptism, baptist, baptize, barhops, barkeep, beclasp, bedlamp, bedpans, bedrape, beleaps, beleapt, bepaint, bespake, bespeak, bewraps, bewrapt, bipacks, biparty, bipedal, biplane, bipolar, bluecap, breakup, burlaps, bypaths, byplays, capable, capably, copaiba, dupable, hubcaps, mobcaps, pablums, pabular, pabulum, pageboy, palabra, parable, parboil, payable, payably, payback, paystub, pedicab, pembina, phobias, piasaba, piebald, pigboat, pinball, placebo, playboy, pliable, pliably, postbag, potable, prebake, prefabs, proband, probang, probate, puberal, ropable, saprobe, soapbox, subpart, subpena, typable, typebar, upbears, upbeats, upbraid.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BPA


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

42 50 41

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .--.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01010000 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#80 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0050 0041

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

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

365035

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Abbreviations
4. Acronyms
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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