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COMDEX

Specialty Definition: COMDEX

DomainDefinition

Computing

Comdex A computer show that is held twice yearly, once in the spring (in Atlanta) and once in autumn (in Las Vegas). Comdex is a major show during which new releases of software and hardware are made. Microsoft, for example, often annouces its products at Comdex. (1995-01-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: COMDEX

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

COMDEX

EnglishComputer Dealers ExpositionN/A

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

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Crosswords: COMDEX

Specialty definitions using "COMDEX": Serial Storage Architecture. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: COMDEX

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The two major trade shows dealing with IT are Saudi Computer 2000 in Riyadh and the COMDEX Saudi Arabia 2000 in Jeddah. (references)

Their visits generally coincide with one of the major U.S. computer trade shows such as - Comdex Fall or Internet World - where they assess the potential of new products. (references)

Comdex Egypt, the largest IT event in North Africa, has been taking place in Cairo for the 3rd year. When last held in Cairo on May 28-31,2000, the show attracted 22,500 IT professional visitors and 40,000 visitors for the shopper part of the event. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: COMDEX

"COMDEX" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 72.22% of the time. "COMDEX" 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)72.22%2668,323
Noun (singular)25%9117,287
Lexical Verb (base form)2.78%1339,140
                    Total100.00%36N/A

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

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Expression: COMDEX

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "COMDEX": comdex-attached.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: COMDEX

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

comdex

232

2003 comdex

22

comdex las vegas

8

comdex rating

7

comdex canada

5

comdex fall

4

comdex folklore

3

comdex show

3

comdex pc tablet

3

2003 comdex las vegas

3

comdex 2002

2

comdex convention

2

2003 comdex fall

2

brazil comdex

2

comdex toronto

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

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Misspellings: COMDEX

Misspellings

"COMDEX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camrex, comdef, Comden, Comtec. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: COMDEX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-m-o-x"

-1 letter: codex, coxed.

-2 letters: code, coed, come, deco, demo, dome, mode.

-3 letters: cod, cox, dex, doc, doe, dom, med, moc, mod, ode.

-4 letters: de, do, ed, em, ex, me, mo, od, oe, om, ox.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-m-o-x"
 

+2 letters: commixed.

 

+3 letters: complexed.

 

+5 letters: sextodecimo.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COMDEX


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

43 4F 4D 44 45 58

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)

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

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

01000011 01001111 01001101 01000100 01000101 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#68 &#69 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 0044 0045 0058

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

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

374947383958

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Abbreviations
7. Acronyms
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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