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CLAPOTIS

Specialty Definition: CLAPOTIS

DomainDefinition

Mining

The wave pattern established when waves are reflected by a barrier so that the crests and troughs occur alternately in the same places with water particle motion limited to vertical movement, while a quarter wavelength away the particle motion is horizontal (back and forth). This is astanding wave phenomenon. (references)

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

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Crosswords: CLAPOTIS

Non-English Usage: "CLAPOTIS" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (lapping, plash, plonk, ripple, swash, wash).

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Usage Frequency: CLAPOTIS

"CLAPOTIS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "CLAPOTIS" is used about 4 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 (singular)100%4175,879

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

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Anagrams: CLAPOTIS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: capitols, coalpits.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: apostil, capitol, citolas, coalpit, optical, plastic, psoatic, stoical, topical, topsail.

-2 letters: atopic, citola, claspt, coapts, coatis, coital, copals, costal, optics, pastil, patios, patois, picots, pilots, pistol, plaits, postal, scotia, social, spital, spoilt, ticals, topics.

-3 letters: alist, altos, ascot, aspic, calos, capos, claps, clapt, clasp, clast, clips, clipt, clits, clops, clots, coals, coapt, coast.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: apostolic, scapolite.

 

+2 letters: captiously, captoprils, complaints, neoplastic, nonplastic, occipitals, patchoulis, pictorials, placations, pleonastic, plications, postcoital, prolactins, scapolites, synoptical.

 

+3 letters: apologetics, applicators, blastoporic, captionless, compatibles, complaisant, complicates, copulations, copulatives, cytoplasmic, duplicators, ectoplasmic, explicators, homoplastic, hypoplastic, noncapitals, nonplastics, nyctalopias, patchoulies, peculations, piscatorial, plasmolytic, politicians, pontificals, postclassic, postcranial, postglacial, postvocalic, pratincoles, pyroclastic, replicators, sophistical, spasmolytic, speculation, spiculation, spirochetal, subtropical, toxoplasmic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CLAPOTIS


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

43 4C 41 50 4F 54 49 53

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)

01000011 01001100 01000001 01010000 01001111 01010100 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#76 &#65 &#80 &#79 &#84 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004C 0041 0050 004F 0054 0049 0053

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

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

3746355049544353

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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