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Counterglow

Definition: Counterglow

Counterglow

Noun

1. A faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space.

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

Specialty Definition: Counterglow

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	= gegenschein. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Counterglow

Synonym: gegenschein (n). (additional references)

Anagrams: Counterglow

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-g-l-n-o-o-r-t-u-w"
	-3 letters: colewort, lungwort, outgrown.
	-4 letters: cloture, clouter, cologne, contour, control, cornute, cornuto, coronel, coronet, coulter, counter, cowrote, crouton, crownet, gruntle, lounger, noctule, outcrow, outglow, outgone, outgrew, outgrow, outwore, outworn, recount, trounce.
	-5 letters: cloner, cogent, colone, colour, colter, colugo, colure, conger, congou, cooler, cooter, cornel, cornet, couter, croton, curlew, cutler, englut, enroot, gentoo, glower, gluten.
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Alternative Orthography: Counterglow

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

43 6F 75 6E 74 65 72 67 6C 6F 77

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 01101111 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100101 01110010 01100111 01101100 01101111 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#103 &#108 &#111 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0075 006E 0074 0065 0072 0067 006C 006F 0077

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

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

3781878086718473788189

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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