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Definition: Gegenschein |
GegenscheinNoun1. 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. |
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Aerospace | A round or elongated spot of light in the sky at a point 180 degrees from the sun. Also called counterglow, zodiacal counterglow. Compare zodiacal light. (references) |
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Synonym: GegenscheinSynonym: counterglow (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Gegenschein |
| Specialty definitions using "gegenschein": zodiacal counterglow. (references) |
| 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. |
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gegenschein | 4 |
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Words beginning with "gegenschein": gegenscheins. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-g-g-h-i-n-n-s" | |
-3 letters: cheesing, sheening. | |
-4 letters: censing, engines, genseng, ginseng, incense, sheenie. | |
-5 letters: cheese, chines, eching, engine, ensign, geeing, genies, hinges, inches, neighs, niches, nieces, seeing, seiche, signee. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-g-g-h-i-n-n-s" | |
+1 letter: gegenscheins. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 67 65 6E 73 63 68 65 69 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . --. . -. ... -.-. .... . .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110011 01100011 01101000 01100101 01101001 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e g e n s c h e i n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0067 0065 006E 0073 0063 0068 0065 0069 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4171737180856974717580 |
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