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ALIGNER

Specialty Definition: ALIGNER

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Operates photographic equipment to align and expose mask circuit pattern with photoresist-coated semiconductor wafer to produce image of circuit pattern on wafer surface: Inserts mask into aligning equipment. Places wafer in wafer holders, such as chuck or conveyor, using tweezers or vacuum wand, to load aligning equipment. Presses buttons to position wafers underneath microscope and aligning head. Observes wafer through microscope and turns knobs to align mask with index points on wafer. Presses button to activate wafer exposing cycle. Maintains production records. (references)
 Fires small arms weapons at fixed targets to test accuracy of sights and mechanical functions of weapons: Positions target at specified distance. Mounts weapon on tripod, or mechanical rest. Aims weapon and fires series of shots at target. Examines target to determine shot pattern and accuracy of sight. Adjusts sights to attain specified accuracy, using handtools. Examines indentations on cartridge face to detect defective striking of firing pin. Records firing deficiencies on target or tag, and routes gun to repair shop. (references)

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

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Crosswords: ALIGNER

Specialty definitions using "ALIGNER": alignment mechanic, axle-and-frame mechanicchassis mechanicFRONT-END MECHANIC, FUNCTIONAL TESTER, TYPEWRITERSwheel-alignment mechanic. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ALIGNER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (adapt, align, equal, range).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ALIGNER

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

aligner

11

aligner wheel

4

mask aligner

3

aligner inman

2

aligner le sur texte word

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

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Modern Translation: ALIGNER

Language Translations for "ALIGNER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

udstøber (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

opzet-apparaat (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

هم ترازکننده . (various references)

   

French

  

aligneur automatique (automatic aligner). (various references)

   

German

  

Aufsetzapparat (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ευθυγραμμών. (various references)

   

Italian

  

allineatore automatico (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aligneray

   

Portuguese

  

alinhador automático (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

согласователь. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alineador automático (automatic aligner, depositing device, depositor). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ALIGNER

Derivations

Words beginning with "ALIGNER": aligners. (additional references)

Words ending with "ALIGNER": maligner. (additional references)

Words containing "ALIGNER": maligners. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ALIGNER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abigne, Aigner, Albiger, albignac, algier, aliener, aligen, aligent, aligne, Aligue, Allinger, Alpiger, Aulagnier, Eliger, Haflinger, Ohlinger. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: ALIGNER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: engrail, nargile, realign, reginal.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r"

-1 letter: aliner, angler, earing, gainer, genial, glaire, larine, linage, linear, linger, nailer, reagin, regain, regina, regnal, renail.

-2 letters: agile, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, anger, angle, anile, argil, argle, ariel, elain, garni, glair, glare, glean, gnarl, grail, grain, ingle, lager, large, learn, liane, liang, ligan, liger, liner, linga, range, regal, regna, reign, renal.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-n-r"
 

+1 letter: alerting, algerine, aligners, allergin, altering, blearing, clearing, dragline, engrails, finagler, gainlier, ganglier, geranial, geraniol, germinal, gnarlier, grapline, integral, janglier, lagering, layering, learning, maligner, malinger, narghile, nargileh, nargiles, pearling, raveling, realigns, regaling, regional, relacing, relating, relaxing, relaying, signaler, slangier, tanglier, triangle, yearling.

 

+2 letters: algerines, allergins, antiglare, ashlering, aureoling, barreling, cellaring, clavering, clearings, clearwing, declaring, derailing, draglines, earthling, engrailed, enlarging, faltering, finaglers, frangible, geranials, geraniols, girandole, gnarliest, granulite, graplines, graveling, greenmail, haltering, heralding, ignorable, integrals, laagering, lackering, laddering, lappering, lathering, laureling, laveering, lawyering, layerings, learnings, legionary, maligners, malingers, marveling, narghiles, nargilehs, neuralgia, neuralgic, neuroglia, paltering, parceling, pargyline, parleying, pellagrin, rappeling, ravelings, ravelling, realigned, realising, realizing, recalling, recoaling, redialing, refalling, reflating, regionals, reglazing, relapsing, releasing, reloading, reloaning, remailing, renailing, repealing, replacing, replating, replaying, resailing, rescaling, resealing, reslating, retailing, revaluing, revealing, searingly, shearling, signalers, signaller, slavering, spanglier, trameling, traveling, treadling, triangles, wearingly, yearlings.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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