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Blacksburg

Definition: Blacksburg

Blacksburg

Noun

1. A university town in southwestern Virginia (west of Roanoke) in the Allegheny Mountains.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Commercial Usage: Blacksburg

DomainTitle

Books

  • Basement Tectonics 13: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Basement Tectonics, Held in Blacksburg, Virginia, Usa, June 1997) (reference)

  • Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia (Artech House Telecommunications Library) (reference)

  • Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Iccs'99, Blacksburg, Va, Usa, July 12-15, 199 (reference)

  • Fiber Optic Sensor-Based Smart Materials and Structures: Papers Presented at the Fifth Annual Smart Materials and Structures Workshop, Blacksburg, V) (reference)

  • Microcomputer Data-Base Management (The Blacksburg Continuing Education Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Specialty Definition: Blacksburg

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Blacksburg is the name of some places in the United States of America:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blacksburg."

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Usage Frequency: Blacksburg

"Blacksburg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Blacksburg" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Blacksburg


1. Blacksburg, SC (town, FIPS 6400)
Location: 35.12114 N, 81.51873 W
Population (1990): 1907 (860 housing units)
Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA


2. Blacksburg, VA (town, FIPS 7784)
Location: 37.23275 N, 80.42841 W
Population (1990): 34590 (11857 housing units)
Area: 48.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blacksburg

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
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blacksburg virginia

1,192

  real estate blacksburg

7

  blacksburg

82

  blacksburg virginia real estate

7

  blacksburg south carolina

31

  blacksburg transit

7

  blacksburg newspaper

27

  blacksburg map va

7

  blacksburg hotel

26

  blacksburg nws

7

  blacksburg newspaper va

21

  blacksburg restaurant

6

  blacksburg newspaper virginia

17

  blacksburg national service va weather

6

  blacksburg high school

17

  blacksburg job

6

  bank blacksburg national

15

  hotel in blacksburg va

6

  blacksburg national service weather

14

  blacksburg virginia hotel

6

  blacksburg town

13

  blacksburg va apartment

5

  blacksburg va hotel

11

  apartment in blacksburg va

5

  blacksburg village

9

  blacksburg map virginia

5

  blacksburg middle school

9

  blacksburg news

5

  blacksburg va real estate

9

  blacksburg electronic village

5

  blacksburg country club

8

  blacksburg park recreation

5

  blacksburg apartment

8

  blacksburg noaa

5

  blacksburg chamber commerce va

8

  blacksburg job va

4

  blacksburg weather

8

  below blacksburg book

4

  blacksburg chamber commerce

7

  real estate in blacksburg va

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Blacksburg

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-g-k-l-r-s-u"

-3 letters: buckras.

-4 letters: babuls, baulks, blacks, blurbs, bubals, buckra, bulbar, bursal, busbar, caulks.

-5 letters: arcus, argus, babul, babus, backs, balks, barbs, barks, baulk, blabs, black, blubs, blurb, blurs, brags, brusk, bubal, bucks, bulbs, bulks, buras, burbs, burgs, burls, bursa, calks, carbs, carks, carls, caulk, cauls, clags, clubs, crabs, crags, curbs, curls, garbs, gaurs, grabs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Blacksburg


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

42 6C 61 63 6B 73 62 75 72 67

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

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

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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 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 01110011 01100010 01110101 01110010 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#115 &#98 &#117 &#114 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B 0073 0062 0075 0072 0067

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

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

36786769778568878473

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Usage Frequency
4. Cities
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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