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| 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 |
CTD | English | Repetitive strain injury | Medicine, Labor |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chief Boatswain Joe Dimartino instructing winch operators during CTD operations CTD - Conductivity, Temperature, Depth measurements MT. MITCHELL CTD's used to determine ocean sound velocity structure Sound velocity information used to correct soundings In support of bathymetric mapping operations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Captain A. Theberge and Lt. Mike Abbott discuss ship-handling during CTD's Chief Boatswain Joe Dimartino watches over winch operator during CTD operations CTD - Conductivity, Temperature, Depth measurements MT. MITCHELL CTD's used to determine ocean sound velocity structure Sound velocity information used to correct soundings during bathymetric mapping. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Temperature sensors on CTD instrument on MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | CTD Rosette being deployed from the baltic room of the the National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker, NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | CTD rosette being deployed to study water temperature, salinity, and chemical characteristics. Working off the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Deploying a CTD rosette sampler off the NOAA Ship MILLER FREEMAN. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Bell UH-1M supporting through-ice CTD studies for OCSEAP. West of Point Barrow. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | A CTD instrument ready for deployment. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Deploying a CTD instrument from the NOAA Ship FERREL. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Figure 70. Temperature sensor for deep water. This instrument was made by Crouzet Society of Valence, France and constructed by SAFARE-CROUZET. This was an early version of a CTD instrument in which temperature information was transmitted up a cable to a recording device. The pressure vessel protecting the sensor was rated to about 3,000 meters water depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "CTD" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CTD" is used about 36 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% | 36 | 57,479 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | CTD Holdings Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| 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 |
ctd | 51 |
eros ctd | 14 |
ctd northwestern | 3 |
ctd news | 3 |
ctd saw | 2 |
ctd machine | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-t" | |
+1 letter: duct. | |
+2 letters: acted, cadet, cited, coted, dicot, dicta, dicty, ditch, ducat, ducts, dutch, edict, educt, octad. | |
+3 letters: abduct, addict, adduct, advect, cadent, cadets, canted, carted, catted, chuted, citied, coated, coedit, costed, crated, credit, dacoit, dactyl, datcha, decant, deceit, decent, decoct, deduct, defect, deject, delict, deltic, depict, detach, detect, detick, dicast, dicots, dictum, didact, direct, docent, docket, doctor, ducats, ductal, ducted, dulcet, edicts, educts, etched, indict, induct, itched, mudcat, octads, redact, tacked, talced, teched, ticked, tomcod, traced, triced, truced, tucked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 54 44 |
| 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 01010100 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C T D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0054 0044 |
| 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)375438 |
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